tomsrtbt license

David Johnson david at usermode.org
Fri Apr 20 18:57:35 UTC 2001


On Friday April 20 2001 07:37 pm, Dave J Woolley wrote:
> > From:	Tom Oehser [SMTP:tom at toms.net]
> >
> > * no way supercedes or nullifies any other protections on the component
> > parts *
> > * such as the BSD and GPL copyrights which apply to practically
> > everything!!! *
>
> It seems to me to mislead as to the copyright ownership, mislead
> as to the rights under the GPL (people can extract the GPLed
> material without mentioning your package, but the implication
> is to the contrary) and confuse styles
> of licence with the copyrights that those licenses relax, not to
> mention begging the defintion of breaking into two.

It didn't seem misleading to me. The tomsrtbt license is applied to the 
*aggregation* of other software.

His updated license clarifies this, and I don't see any OSD problems with it.

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David Johnson
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