[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#722134: Slidy licensing - independent (i.e. dual-licensed) or combined?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Rigo Wenning (2013-10-01 23:13:35)
> sorry for the inconvenience. While making slidy, it looks like Dave or 
> someone else just used template text from W3C licensing. To understand 
> that licensing, you have to look into the general licensing statement 
> from W3C:
> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/ipr-notice-20021231
> 
> There it says: 
> The Software License governs distribution of W3C W3C Open Source 
> Software and some other materials where creation of derivative works 
> may be desired.
> 
> Slidy is clearly open source software and thus is fully under the W3C 
> Software license. The W3C Software license is GPL and FSF compatible:
> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html#GNU1
> 
> So from our side, there are no issues with using Slidy in open source. 

Excellent.  Thanks a lot for the clarification.

@Dave: I suggest that you update to drop the reference to "document use" 
policy on slide 16 and in the zip file.

Thanks a lot for this nice piece of code! :-)


 - Jonas

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