On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:12:06PM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > MMIX is the successor to Donald Knuth's MIX machine in later editions of The > Art of Computer Programming. The canonical software implementation is made > available with the following license: > > http://mmix.cs.hm.edu/websvn/wsvn/MMIX/mmixware/trunk/boilerplate.w > > While the wording is different from the same author's license on TeX > (approved as the "Knuth license"), the intent appears to be the same. > > Is this acceptable for Fedora, and what name should be used? The interesting part is this: "Changes are permissible only if the modified file is given a new name, different from the names of existing files in the {\ninett MMIX}ware package, and only if the modified file is clearly identified as not being part of that package." This is reminiscent of a feature of the LaTeX Project Public License 1.2 of which the FSF said: This license contains complex and annoying restrictions on how to publish a modified version, including one requirement that falls just barely on the good side of the line of what is acceptable: that any modified file must have a new name. The reason this requirement is acceptable for LaTeX is that TeX has a facility to allow you to map file names, to specify “use file bar when file foo is requested”. With this facility, the requirement is merely annoying; without the facility, the same requirement would be a serious obstacle, and we would have to conclude it makes the program nonfree. I assume in this context there is nothing corresponding to the filename mapping facility. Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
