[CMake] Copyright.txt

[Bill Hoffman]

Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:14:53AM +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>>   In CMake tarball, Copyright.txt reads:
>>
>> [...]
>>  * Modified source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must
>>    not be misrepresented as being the original software.
>> [...]
>>
>>   But at the same time source file headers advertise
>> http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Copyright.html which has no such clause.
>>
>>
>>   This clause causes issues as it's incompatible with the GPL (QT's
>> license), hence we cannot distribute the cmake GUI in Debian right now
>> because of that. So what should I believe ? The Website, or the tarball ?
> 
>   Hmmm I understand this isn't a very sexy question, but the answer is
> quite important for the viability of the GUI, if the mailing list isn't
> the place, who can I contact about that ?

We are going to change all licenses for CMake to pure BSD style 
licenses.  I have not yet done that, but will try to get it done sooner 
than later.

-Bill