From 04f2bb937dac75d32dea2bcd2be82b776a7b14a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carsten Haitzler Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:00:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] fix the copying license to 1. get rid of grammar mistake 2. refer to COPYING-PLAIn correctly as the filename 3. be more explicit on "shipping source" due to ambiguity (this makes it what it was intended to be and that is GPL compatible). this does not modify the LGPL libs... or GPL apps etc. - only those using the original COPYING from e. author and dates at the top remain the same. SVN revision: 38569 --- COPYING | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index bb43adc..9690c3f 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ -Copyright (C) 2007 Sthithaprajna Garapaty and various contributors (see AUTHORS) Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to @@ -10,15 +9,20 @@ furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the Software and its Copyright notices. In addition publicly documented acknowledgment must be given that this software has been used if no -source code of this software is made available publicly. This includes -acknowledgments in either Copyright notices, Manuals, Publicity and Marketing -documents or any documentation provided with any product containing this -software. This License does not apply to any software that links to the -libraries provided by this software (statically or dynamically), but only to -the software provided. +source code of this software is made available publicly. Making the source +available publicly means including the source for this software with the +distribution, or a method to get this software via some reasonable mechanism +(electronic transfer via a network or media) as well as making an offer to +supply the source on request. This Copyright notice serves as an offer to +supply the source on on request as well. Instead of this, supplying +acknowledgments of use of this software in either Copyright notices, Manuals, +Publicity and Marketing documents or any documentation provided with any +product containing this software. This License does not apply to any software +that links to the libraries provided by this software (statically or +dynamically), but only to the software provided. -Please see the COPYING.PLAIN for a plain-english explanation of this notice -and it's intent. +Please see the COPYING-PLAIN for a plain-english explanation of this notice +and its intent. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,