Thanks Matt, yeah I looked over it too, and since it appears to be vanilla GPL2, we're good. matt:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:09:25PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
Yeah, though riot is GPLd.
Tuomo and I've worked on a couple of projects (riot, yi), but it's been a while.
Anyway, riot is in AUR,
We should probably handle this one extra carefully, so I took it upon myself to do some due diligence.
I'm not trying to revive the Tuomo bashing that went around the arch community when this happened last year. I do however feel that since he's made his feelings clear[1] on modified distributions, we need to protect our reputations by establishing that an effort was made to ensure we were complying with licensing restrictions. I don't know if cabalization (modifying the build system) concerns him.
The license in the version available[2] from his personal website appears (through a quick diff) to be insubstantially different from the FSF's edition of the GPL2. I have attached the content of the diff to this message, as you can see, the differences are entirely in format.
I think we're good to distribute this.
[1] http://archlinux.org/pipermail/tur-users/2007-April/004634.html [2] http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/riot/
--- riot-1ds-20080618/LICENSE 2008-06-18 09:56:57.000000000 -0400 +++ /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 2006-06-15 16:01:00.000000000 -0400 @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991
- Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA + Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc., + 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by -the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to +the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow. - + GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement.) - + These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code. - + 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be a consequence of the rest of this License. - + 8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS - + How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest @@ -303,17 +303,16 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License - along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA - + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along + with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., + 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
- Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author + Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c' for details. @@ -336,5 +335,5 @@ This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the -library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General +library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License.
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