[PD] new license for pidip and unauthorized WAS: pd-pidip into Debian

Andy Farnell padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk
Mon Dec 6 15:01:24 CET 2010



Ouch, my eyes!

http://www.352media.com/rantingandraving/CMFiles/Images/CapsLock.jpg

Shouting in caps lock doen't make it LEGAL!!!11!  or something :)


On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 08:42:03 -0500 (EST)
Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, John Harrison wrote:
> 
> > I was curious, since EffecTV is GPL and a significant part of PiDiP is a port 
> > of EffecTV --- does this make an impact on what licenses are valid for PiDiP?
> 
> Relicensing of EffecTV code from GPL to Degoyon license is ILLEGAL, and 
> linking of EffecTV code frorm GPL to Degoyon license is ALSO ILLEGAL. Back 
> in 2005, I hadn't considered the use of EffecTV code (if I recall), but 
> there was other GPL'ed code anyway in PiDiP, which was already making 
> redistribution ILLEGAL.
> 
> Any change of license of EffecTV must get prior written approval by 
> Kentaro Fukuchi and any other possible contributors, but that doesn't make 
> GPL compatible with Degoyon license (the GPL must be replaced by a more 
> «bendable» license such as plain BSD).
> 
>   _______________________________________________________________________
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Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>



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