X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?p=ion3.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=LICENSE;h=52a117d5812e4df1952fc3ed17429edb2f4b9e04;hp=f8e3c54d7baf2b454726a7c4b14ed65c43c992f1;hb=562cb4d37ba7667ac846fc3d426b152d21ef2c22;hpb=720e6978185b09f2b2f60a6b96018238085a7238 diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index f8e3c54..52a117d 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2007. +Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2008. Unless otherwise indicated in components taken from elsewhere, this software is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 ("LGPL", @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ reproduced below), extended and modified with the following terms: is to be understood to refer to the LGPL extended with these terms and, where applicable, possible similar terms related to the names of other works forming a whole. Sections 3 and 13 of the LGPL are void. Where - contradictory, these additional terms are primary to the LGPL. + contradictory, these additional terms take precedence over the LGPL. End of terms. @@ -53,24 +53,23 @@ trademark or other laws. copyright holder nor the Ion project: "Foo for Ion" instead of "Ion Foo", etc. -Significant change: Bug fixes are a priori insignificant as additions. -Basic changes that are needed to install or run the software on a target -platform are a priori insignificant. Additionally, basic configuration -changes to better integrate the software with the target platform, -without obstructing the standard behaviour, are a priori insignificant. -Everything else is significant. The copyright holder reserves the right -to refine the definition of significant changes on a per-case basis. -Please consult when in doubt. +Significant change: Bug fixes are insignificant as additions. Basic changes +that are needed to install or run the software on a target platform, are +insignificant. Additionally, basic/small configuration changes to better +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 after 28 days provide the -latest release of Ion3 (resp. the latest stable release), or prominently -notify the user that the provided version is (likely to be) obsolete and -unsupported. Specific versions (including modified versions) may be provided -if the user explicitly requests for those, within the constraints set above. -The latest release being provided by default, or prominently appearing in -a listing, constitutes prominent marking of earlier releases as obsolete. +`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