[CMake] Copyright.txt

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Wed Jun 11 13:50:04 EDT 2008


Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:38:10PM +0000, Bill Hoffman wrote:
>> Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:14:53AM +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>>>>  In CMake tarball, Copyright.txt reads:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>> * Modified source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must
>>>>   not be misrepresented as being the original software.
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>  But at the same time source file headers advertise
>>>> http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Copyright.html which has no such clause.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  This clause causes issues as it's incompatible with the GPL (QT's
>>>> license), hence we cannot distribute the cmake GUI in Debian right now
>>>> because of that. So what should I believe ? The Website, or the tarball 
>>>> ?
>>>  Hmmm I understand this isn't a very sexy question, but the answer is
>>> quite important for the viability of the GUI, if the mailing list isn't
>>> the place, who can I contact about that ?
>> We are going to change all licenses for CMake to pure BSD style licenses. 
>>  I have not yet done that, but will try to get it done sooner than later.
> 
>   I hope you'll do that before Debian enters its feature freeze then :)
> 

When is the feature freeze?

-Bill


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