[License-discuss] Question: is the following paragraph in violation of OSD6

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Fri Oct 4 23:15:09 UTC 2024


Hi Lucy,

This is explicitly OK with the OSD. When I created the OSD, I carefully
considered the author's rights to represent a work as their own, and wrote
a rule about it:

4. Integrity of The Author’s Source Code

The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified
form *only* if the license allows the distribution of “patch files” with
the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. The
license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified
source code. *The license may require derived works to carry a different
name or version number from the original software.*

On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 3:52 PM Johnny A. Solbu <johnny at solbu.net> wrote:

> On Friday 04 October 2024 23:08, David Woolley wrote:
> > In EU law, I believe it is covered by "moral rights", and I don't think
> you can
> > assign these in the way that you can assign copyright.
>
> I don't know about the EU law on this, but in my country Norway,
> you are Not allowed to sign away your moral rights.
>
> It is one of the rights you cannot waive by any contract of any kind.
>
>
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