Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of UniPackage - savannah.nongnu.org

[Ben Myles]

Hi Sylvain,

Thanks for your suggestion below. I've been thinking about it, but in
my opinion it doesn't really seem right to include the copyright
notice in the "AppRun" script.

The "AppRun" script is just part of the output of my application. It's
not the application itself.

If you think of the GIMP as a metaphor - the GIMP itself has its own
respective license, but images generated with it can be licensed under
whatever license the artist wishes.

Primarily, I feel that if I include the license information at the top
of every generated "AppRun" file, it will discourage software
distributors from packaging non-GPL software with the system. This
would cripple the tool's prospects.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is still in compliance with
the GPL? If not then perhaps I need to switch to a less restrictive
license such as BSD?

Thanks,

Ben

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 00:24:29 +0100, Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Giving a permissive does not mean you should drop the copyright and
> license notices. I suggest you use something like the Bison skeleton
> files:
> 
> /* Skeleton output parser for bison,
> 
>    Copyright (C) 1984, 1989, 1990, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software
>    Foundation, Inc.
> 
>    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
>    any later version.
> 
>    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>    GNU General Public License for more details.
> 
>    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
>    Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
> 
> /* As a special exception, when this file is copied by Bison into a
>    Bison output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
>    This special exception was added by the Free Software Foundation
>    in version 1.24 of Bison.  */
> 
> Would this suit your needs?
> 
> --
> Sylvain