From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
Cc: | mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: TODO: GNU TLS |
Date: | 2006-12-30 22:03:23 |
Message-ID: | 200612302203.kBUM3Nr18354@momjian.us |
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
> > > source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
> > > conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
> > > copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
> > > notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
> > > and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
> > > along with the Program.
> > >
> > > That's an existing restriction in the GPL, therefore a restriction in
> > > another license for the same thing is acceptable to the GPL for a
> > > resultant work. You'll also note above it says "an appropriate
> > > copyright notice".
> >
> > I don't see were is says that another license's restriction that is the
> > same as a GPL restriction, but for a different license, is OK.
>
> It says that above under 6- You may not impose any *further*
> restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
>
> I appriciate your pedantism but in the end it really doesn't matter very
> much. This is, aiui anyway, the way Debian interprets the various
> licenses. You're welcome to your own interpretation.
That was my point --- that it isn't clear what "additional restrictions"
are, and that an advertizing clause or additional license can be
interpreted as the same thing.
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Bruce Momjian bruce(at)momjian(dot)us
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