On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 10:08 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >> So are anonymous modifications permitted? It would seem to be > >> overly restrictive otherwise. > > TC> Probably not, but this is not terribly unusual. See the Linux > TC> kernel. > > I don't see how that applies. Yes, I must identify myself in order > for my changes to be accepted into Linus's tree (and meet various > coding standards and such), but my freedom is not restricted because > I'm still allowed to anonymously modify and redistribute as long as I > comply with the GPL. Under this license I am not, or so it seems. > > Or, to put it another way, a license would definitely not be > considered free if it restricted modifications to those upholding a > certain coding standard, yet the Linux kernel requires adherence to > standards for acceptance into the main tree and is not any less free > because ot it. Your analysis is incorrect, insofar as positing that the clause in question makes this license non-free. Case in point: the Open Publication License with no optional clauses is considered a free (documentation) license by the FSF[1], but it contains a verbatim copy of the clause in question. (It also includes a verbatim copy of the inclusion clause you cited earlier, and from reading over both of them, I wouldn't be surprised if one was the basis for the other.) In any case, license proliferation is annoying. :-) [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
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