must send modifications license acceptable?
Patrice Dumas
pertusus at free.fr
Thu Aug 30 07:40:39 UTC 2007
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 02:50:50AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
> Any license that mandates a requirement to send all modifications to the
> original authors is clearly non-free. Academic Free License does not do
> that. The other licenses you quotes appear to do this.
In fact in one of the license this is a should and not a must, Karl
Berry (texlive maintainer) thinks it is right and I agree with him:
"All modified versions should be reported back to the author."
And the clause in the other license has been removed by the author of dvips
recently.
--
Pat
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