[Clfs-dev] sysroot updates

[P. J. McDermott]

Sorry about the duplicate message earlier.  I have a poor network
connection and my mail client informed me that the message hadn't been
sent, so I resent it.

On 01/05/2012 06:23 AM, Andrew Bradford wrote:
> On 01/05/2012 05:34 AM, P. J. McDermott wrote:
>> Pedantry: Many of the commands and such in that procedure are based on
>> those in CLFS-Sysroot, and my work in that procedure is "Copyright (C)
>> 2012 Patrick (P. J.) McDermott" and may be freely used under the terms
>> of the Expat/MIT License [2].
>>
>> 2: http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt
> 
> Just a heads up, the Sysroot book is covered by the Open Publication
> License [1], [2].
> 
> [1] http://cross-lfs.org/view/clfs-sysroot/x86/appendices/license.html
> [2] http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/
> 
> Please be aware of the requirements that come along with using CLFS
> material, there's certain ways that the Open Publication License
> requires attribution.

Of course, I did intend to add to my notes the CLFS-Sysroot copyright
notice, license note, and location of the unmodified work.  Since you
reminded me, I've done so just now.  The only reason I hadn't done so
sooner is that these were just unpolished notes that hadn't been
publicly announced yet.

To clarify, I didn't actually claim any rights over anything in my
previous message.  Under copyright laws of the U.S. and other
jurisdictions, copyright is automatic and by default there is little
anyone can do with a copyrighted work.  I just intended to specify that
my notes on CLFS-Sysroot are free for anyone to use.

> You aren't required to use the Open Pub License
> if you make a derivative work so long as you provide proper attribution
> for the parts you do use (but IANAL).

Right, there is no copyleft requirement on derivative works in OPL
version 1.0.  (And IANAL also.)  I chose the Expat License as a simple
permissive copyright license that is compatible with the OPL, but if
anyone needs an even more permissive license to incorporate my notes
into CLFS-Sysroot, I don't mind granting it.

> -Andrew

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