Re: Question about license

Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]> writes:
> Soren Stoutner dijo [Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 03:08:22PM -0700]:
>> 2.  It requires that derivatives must use the same license.  That isn’t a
>> standard part of a MIT (Expat) license, but it is a standard part of other
>> DFSG licenses (like the GPL), so I don’t think it would be a DFSG problem.
>
> So, this paragraph tries to make the MIT license into a Copyleft / Viral
> licensing scheme. This is counter to what most people believe the main point of
> the MIT licenses to be!
>
> Maybe it is not against the DFSG, but it leads users to perform mind games they
> should not have to.

Instead of trying too hard to figure out exactly what the author really
means, maybe you can contact them about dual-licensing it?  I do not
know if you can contact the original author, but I found a (hopefully)
more up-to-date email at

  https://pp3.sourceforge.net/

My suggestion would be to ask them if they would dual license everything
under the GPL-V3+, but any of the standard licenses would do.

  https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/

Cheers,
Walter Landry