Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:54:56 -0800
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Subject: Re: License question
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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From: Misshielle Wong <mwl@bajoo.net>
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Hi

>
> 	It doesn't "ask" for anything. It states a license requirement. And 
> yes, it does restrict rights, it removes your right to remove that 
> notice. Any license clause that prohibits you from making particular 
> modifications to the source code is a restriction. The only issue is 
> whether it's a "further restriction" for purposes of clause 6 of the 
> GPL. As I read the GPL, a restriction is a "further restriction" if it 
> is imposed in addition to those stated in the GPL.
>

Blah blah blah. You can't remove copyright notices in GPL'ed software 
either, so it is no additional restriction.

>> Summarizing this
>> license, it ends up like this: "Copyright bla bla bla. Keep 'em goddamn
>> copyrights and disclaimer or else you have no rights to copy, modify,
>> sublicense, redistribute, sublicense bla bla bla. Software provided 'as
>> is'. Clear?"
>
> 	Yep, that's what it says.
>
>> GPL is ok with that.
>
> 	No, GPL is "you may modify however you please". It imposes only a 
> specific set of restrictions and specifically prohibits the imposition 
> of additional restrictions. These are *exactly* the type of additional 
> restrictions the GPL was carefully worded to prohibit!
>

Blah blah blah. Read the GPL section 1 and 2.

=====
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.

You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you 
may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.

2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, 
thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such 
modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that 
you also meet all of these conditions:
...
=====

See? Must keep the appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty 
in each copy.


> 	DS
>
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