| From: | Ray A. Akey |
| Date: | 22 Aug 2000 at 13:51:19 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Amiga tool inclusion... |
"Aaron Optimizer Digulla" <digulla@hepe.com> wrote:
> How about transferring the copyright ? Will that be necessary ?
>
> If not, how about creating a special field in the READMEs which must
> accompany every upload to the FTP server which states if the software
> may be distributed on your distributions ? That should help a lot
> to automate the process.
Any fields or description/direction you put in the .readme, above and beyond
the 2 required (short:, and author:) fields are you choice and will not be
removed nor edited.
> Also, you might want to do the same for the software on the CVS
> server (non-GNU software, that is. Everything GNU can of course
> be distributed without any restrictions except that you must
> include the sources :-)
Whoever is providing/maintaining/uploading the snapshots should take
responsibility to do this. Amiga does not and will not/should not provide
support nor be responsible or liable for third party contributed software.
Amiga only redistributes the software that the third party developers
provide to us _as is_. It is up to you, the developer, to see that you
follow the ettiquette and rules regarding any given license, GNU or
otherwise. We want to promote and encourage developer responsibility, not
assume the responsibility for them.
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