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Joshua Allen
Jun 28, 2023, 11:50:03 AM6/28/23
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Dear Debian Legal,
I was going through the Nethack General Public License and even though
it is a free software license obviously not compatible with the GNU GPL,
how do you maintain it without calling it nethack though since the only
official nethack releases can be called nethack. If you were to append
the same license on top of the NGPL but remove references to nethack, it
would still qualify because the terms are the same im just changing the
name of the program derivative.
Hence for example:
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) 20yy <name of author>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the Nethack General Public License as
published by Nethack.org
Since Nethack.org owns the trademark to Nethack, references to
Nethack in the NGPL refer to <program name>.
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 Nethack General Public License
along with this program; if not, go to
https://www.nethack.org/common/license.html
I was going through the Nethack General Public License and even though
it is a free software license obviously not compatible with the GNU GPL,
how do you maintain it without calling it nethack though since the only
official nethack releases can be called nethack. If you were to append
the same license on top of the NGPL but remove references to nethack, it
would still qualify because the terms are the same im just changing the
name of the program derivative.
Hence for example:
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) 20yy <name of author>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the Nethack General Public License as
published by Nethack.org
Since Nethack.org owns the trademark to Nethack, references to
Nethack in the NGPL refer to <program name>.
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 Nethack General Public License
along with this program; if not, go to
https://www.nethack.org/common/license.html
MJ Ray
Jun 30, 2023, 3:40:03 AM6/30/23
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Le 28 juin 2023 16:25:09 GMT+01:00, Joshua Allen <jos...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>Dear Debian Legal,
>
>I was going through the Nethack General Public License and even though it is a free software license obviously not compatible with the GNU GPL, how do you maintain it without calling it nethack though since the only official nethack releases can be called nethack. If you were to append the same license on top of the NGPL but remove references to nethack, it would still qualify because the terms are the same im just changing the name of the program derivative.
Hope that explains,
--
MJR
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