[CMake] Copyright.txt

[Pierre Habouzit]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:38:10PM +0000, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> 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.

  I hope you'll do that before Debian enters its feature freeze then :)

  THanks for your answer.


-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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