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    From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 25 06:30:01 2020
    On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:55 AM Paul Wise wrote:

    Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

    I talked to one of RedHat's lawyers and they mentioned that they have
    dealt with this problem too and concluded that these licenses were
    intended to cover modification. The current wording of the initial
    part of the BSD license reflects an attempt to correct an earlier
    mistake (i.e. someone pointed out the error and Berkeley added "with
    or without modification"). Also note that the anti-endorsement clause
    implies a right to modify.

    --
    bye,
    pabs

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  • From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 19 05:10:02 2020
    On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:55 AM Paul Wise wrote:

    conserver package is in non-free because of this issue but it appears a
    lot of people did not notice the lack of modification permission.
    ...
    https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2019-July/msg00001.html

    Due to the interpretation provided by RedHat's lawyer and some
    clarifications provided by Conserver upstream, I have filed a request
    for Conserver to move from non-free to Debian main.

    https://bugs.debian.org/963103

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    pabs

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  • From Richard Fontana@21:1/5 to pabs@debian.org on Sun Aug 16 18:30:02 2020
    On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 12:25 AM Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:

    On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:55 AM Paul Wise wrote:

    Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

    I talked to one of RedHat's lawyers and they mentioned that they have
    dealt with this problem too and concluded that these licenses were
    intended to cover modification.

    This was probably me. :-) Anyway, belatedly belatedly confirming this.

    Richard


    The current wording of the initial
    part of the BSD license reflects an attempt to correct an earlier
    mistake (i.e. someone pointed out the error and Berkeley added "with
    or without modification"). Also note that the anti-endorsement clause
    implies a right to modify.

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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