X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=debian%2Fcopyright;h=3f5325097141717aed71b89e0e795a3577b947e2;hb=HEAD;hp=d299ec2c5dab33e132aea223cd60013dc96fa1a0;hpb=e994f4613fd17422f00170760eefb47427b86660;p=ion3.git diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright index d299ec2..3f53250 100644 --- a/debian/copyright +++ b/debian/copyright @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -This is the Debian-packaged version of Ion3. +This is the Debian-packaged version of Ion3. It is not part of the +Debian system itself due to the restrictions on modifications in the +Ion3 licence (see below). The package was put together by Per Olofsson , based on the ion package created by Tommi Virtanen . It uses @@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ the control file and notify . The following notice applies to the Ion3 code and to the names "Ion", "Ion3", etc.: -Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2008. +Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2009. Unless otherwise indicated in components taken from elsewhere, this software is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 ("LGPL", @@ -32,11 +34,6 @@ reproduced below), extended and modified with the following terms: - A version that does not significantly differ from one of the copyright holder's releases, must be provided by default. - - Versions not based on the copyright holder's latest release (on - the corresponding "branch", such as Ion3(tm)), must within 28 days - of this release, be prominently marked as (potentially) obsolete - and unsupported. - - Significantly altered versions may be provided only if the user explicitly requests for those modifications to be applied, and is prominently notified that the software is no longer considered @@ -81,25 +78,6 @@ integrate the software with the target platform, without obstructing the standard behaviour, are insignificant. Everything else is significant, unless expressly declared otherwise by the copyright holder. -Distributions: For example, suppose an aggregate distribution of software -provides an `installpkg` command for installing packages. Then the action -`installpkg ion3` (resp. `installpkg ion`) should provide the latest release -of Ion3 (resp. the latest stable release) 28 days from release date at the -latest, or prominently notify the user that the provided version is (likely -to be) obsolete and unsupported. The latest release being provided by -default, or prominently appearing in a listing, constitutes prominent -marking of earlier releases as obsolete. Specific versions (including -modified versions) may be provided if the user explicitly requests for -those, within the constraints set above. - -The intent of these terms is to curb the power that "distributions", as -the primary sources of software for many users, have in defining what -is perceived as Ion. By providing significantly modified versions and -out-dated development snapshots without prominently mentioning this fact, -they do not present the work in a light that the author can agree with, -and create a burden of dealing with (new) users seeking for support for -such versions. - --- The following notice applies to the dock module (mod_dock):