Originally posted by plonoma
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You're obviously stupid, because it is almost a given that it is NECESSARY to fork the GPL to ALLOW COMPATIBILITY with licenses that indemnify persons or organizations. Indemnity is important in licensing, and especially FREE licensing. Why would I possibly want to give my work away for free when some dipshit customer of YOURS will sue me, and it ends up my defence is at my own expense? That makes no sense at all! -
[QUOTE=droidhacker;325109]It has just now become completely clear that the zealots at the FSF need to get laid. BADLY.
The clause:
In other words, use at your own risk, fuck you.
Quite frankly, I wouldn't change this license at all. There is no reason to. In fact, what I would do... is fork the GPL, and modify it to ALLOW this.[/QUOTE]
The FSF did exactly that it is called GPLv3....
Edit:
The relevant clause of the GPLv3:
(Bolding mine).7. Additional Terms.
“Additional permissions? are terms that supplement the terms of this License by making exceptions from one or more of its conditions. Additional permissions that are applicable to the entire Program shall be treated as though they were included in this License, to the extent that they are valid under applicable law. If additional permissions apply only to part of the Program, that part may be used separately under those permissions, but the entire Program remains governed by this License without regard to the additional permissions.
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The bolded bit was added to get compatibility the Apache License v 2.0 which has the following clause:but EA used it for the source code release of Simcity, Micropolis(bolded bit mine):9. Accepting Warranty or Additional Liability. While redistributing the Work or Derivative Works thereof, You may choose to offer, and charge a fee for, acceptance of support, warranty, indemnity, or other liability obligations and/or rights consistent with this License. However, in accepting such obligations, You may act only on Your own behalf and on Your sole responsibility, not on behalf of any other Contributor, and only if You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold each Contributor harmless for any liability incurred by, or claims asserted against, such Contributor by reason of your accepting any such warranty or additional liability
and id has used it for its source code releases since being acquired by ZeniMax(bolding mine):ADDITIONAL TERMS per GNU GPL Section 7
No trademark or publicity rights are granted. This license does NOT
give you any right, title or interest in the trademark SimCity or any
other Electronic Arts trademark. You may not distribute any
modification of this program using the trademark SimCity or claim any
affliation or association with Electronic Arts Inc. or its employees.
Any propagation or conveyance of this program must include this
copyright notice and these terms.
If you convey this program (or any modifications of it) and assume
contractual liability for the program to recipients of it, you agree
to indemnify Electronic Arts for any liability that those contractual
assumptions impose on Electronic Arts.
You may not misrepresent the origins of this program; modified
versions of the program must be marked as such and not identified as
the original program.
This disclaimer supplements the one included in the General Public
License. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, THIS
PROGRAM IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS," WITH ALL FAULTS, WITHOUT WARRANTY
OF ANY KIND, AND YOUR USE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE ENTIRE RISK OF
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DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY WARRANTIES,
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RIGHTS, AND WARRANTIES (IF ANY) ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING,
USAGE, OR TRADE PRACTICE. ELECTRONIC ARTS DOES NOT WARRANT AGAINST
INTERFERENCE WITH YOUR ENJOYMENT OF THE PROGRAM; THAT THE PROGRAM WILL
MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; THAT OPERATION OF THE PROGRAM WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT THE PROGRAM WILL BE COMPATIBLE
WITH THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE OR THAT ANY ERRORS IN THE PROGRAM WILL BE
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NOT APPLY TO YOU.
ZeniMax did the same when they released the source code to Arkane's Arx Fatalis.ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLICABLE TO THE Doom 3 BFG Edition GPL Source Code.
The following additional terms ("Additional Terms") supplement and modify
the GNU General Public License, Version 3 ("GPL") applicable to the Doom 3
BFG Edition GPL Source Code ("Doom 3 BFG Edition Source Code"). In addition
to the terms and conditions of the GPL, the Doom 3 BFG Edition Source Code is
subject to the further restrictions below.
1. Replacement of Section 15. Section 15 of the GPL shall be deleted in its
entirety and replaced with the following:
"15. Disclaimer of Warranty.
THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE AND MERCHANTABILITY. THE PROGRAM IS BEING
DELIVERED OR MADE AVAILABLE "AS IS", "WITH ALL FAULTS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OR
REPRESENTATION. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST
OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION."
2. Replacement of Section 16. Section 16 of the GPL shall be deleted in its
entirety and replaced with the following:
"16. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR ITS AFFILIATES, OR ANY
OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE
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HOLDER OR SUCH OTHER PARTY RECEIVES NOTICE OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES AND WHETHER
OR NOT SUCH DAMAGES COULD HAVE BEEN FORESEEN."
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of the Program or any other required author attributions. This license does
not grant you rights to use any copyright holder or any other party?s name,
logo, or trademarks. Neither the name of the copyright holder or its
affiliates, or any other party who modifies and/or conveys the Program may be
used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
specific prior written permission. The origin of the Program must not be
misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original Program.
Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
misrepresented as being the original Program.
4. INDEMNIFICATION. IF YOU CONVEY A COVERED WORK AND AGREE WITH ANY RECIPIENT
OF THAT COVERED WORK THAT YOU WILL ASSUME ANY LIABILITY FOR THAT COVERED WORK,
YOU HEREBY AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD HARMLESS THE OTHER LICENSORS
AND AUTHORS OF THAT COVERED WORK FOR ANY DAMAEGS, DEMANDS, CLAIMS, LOSSES,
CAUSES OF ACTION, LAWSUITS, JUDGMENTS EXPENSES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION
REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES) OR ANY OTHER LIABLITY ARISING FROM,
RELATED TO OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ASSUMPTIONS OF LIABILITY.Last edited by Kristian Joensen; 10 April 2013, 03:58 PM.Leave a comment:
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Yea, the whole situation is giving me a headache. So the kernel is GPLv2, except that some source files are not GPLv2, and except that there are firmware blobs that are licensed restrictively... And then after compilation is' still GPLv2 as a whole? Arrgh...Originally posted by Teho View Post
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It would be interesting to have a list of all the licenses, propietary blobs and such used in Linux kernel. Having some clarity in all this licensing stuff might help the community to avoid situations like this in the future.Leave a comment:
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[QUOTE=droidhacker;325109]It has just now become completely clear that the zealots at the FSF need to get laid. BADLY.
The clause:
In other words, use at your own risk, fuck you.
Quite frankly, I wouldn't change this license at all. There is no reason to. In fact, what I would do... is fork the GPL, and modify it to ALLOW this.[/QUOTE]
The FSF did exactly that it is called GPLv3....Leave a comment:
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Steal from *BSD?
Why not use BSD-licensed code from one of the BSDs that support ARM?Leave a comment:
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Because the licensing zealots are loose. Somebody, hurry up and catch them before they can cause any more damage!!!Originally posted by entropy View PostLeave a comment:
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