Re: Re: Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license.

[Nicolas Boulay <nico@xxxxxxxx>]

Le Samedi 31 Janvier 2004 21:59, David Dawes a écrit :
> Perhaps a more serious part of the "one way" problem is this very
> discussion.  Has anyone considered modifying the GPL to be more compatible
> with other Open Source licences rather than trying to force all Open
> Source licences to be a subset of the GPL?  To me it seems a signficant
> flaw to the GPL if it is incompatible with Open Source developers' desire
> to receive due credit for their work from those who redistribute it.
> If GPL compatibility is such a big issue to GPL advocates, then perhaps,
> for their own benefit, it needs to be more accomodating than it currently
> is.

FSF considers that copyright apply on code greater than 10 lines of code. So, 
with licence BSD (first version) like, you should write the name of all the 
autors. From the pratical point of view, it's impossible to do it right.

I'm not a laywer but if this requirement is badly fullfill (only maintainer 
and main coder name are in the files), the licence could became void. It's 
look like main mainteners owned all the code. So it could became a "weak" 
point from the legal point of view. The zealot could also came from SCO like 
compagnies. 

Nicolas

>
> David


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