Question Regarding Derived Works

[Joel West]

On 5:53 PM -0500 3/1/05, David Dillard doth scribe:
>Item #3 in the open source definition states that "The license must
>allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be
>distributed under the same terms as the license of the original
>software."
> 
>Would a license that states that existing interfaces in the code cannot
>be changed that violates this item?  After all new interfaces could be
>added.

In addition to the suggestions already offered, you could have a license that says "if you change the interfaces, you cannot call it TurboSoft". Brian may be being modest, but I believe that's the main difference between the Apache 1.1 and (New) BSD license is to make explicit that derivative works can't use your trademark.

Joel

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Joel West
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