[CMake] Copyright.txt

Pierre Habouzit madcoder at debian.org
Wed Jun 11 03:32:39 EDT 2008


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 ?

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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