On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:17:12PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 02:50:50AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Any license that mandates a requirement to send all modifications to the
>> original authors is clearly non-free. Academic Free License does not do
>> that. The other licenses you quotes appear to do this.
> In fact in one of the license this is a should and not a must, Karl
> Berry (texlive maintainer) thinks it is right and I agree with him:
> "All modified versions should be reported back to the author."
If I make private modifications in Free software and don't distribute the
software, I am under no obligation to distribute any changes to anyone.
Maybe this request can be presented outside the license and that's what the
DSFG FAQ suggests
http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html
Indeed, but in their examples it is always a must, I think that with a
should, it is like a request versus an obligation, and it is right even
in the license.
--
Pat