Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 5/6] copyleft-next: remove section 7 - anti-tivoization | Date | Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:48:44 -0700 |
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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
The anti-tivoization clauses must go if we want this license to be ever considered for usage with the Linux kernel. This patch removes that entire section.
The re-enumerating of the sections is done separately to make it easier for review.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> --- copyleft-next | 56 ++++++-------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
diff --git a/copyleft-next b/copyleft-next index 32f1274..fdb20c2 100644 --- a/copyleft-next +++ b/copyleft-next @@ -153,17 +153,15 @@ conditions: You modified the Program, and giving a relevant date. b) The Derivative Work must carry prominent notices stating that - it is released under this License and any conditions added under - section 7. This requirement modifies the requirement in section 3 - to "keep intact all notices". + it is released under this License. This requirement modifies the + requirement in section 3 to "keep intact all notices". c) You must license the entire Derivative Work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This - License will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7 - additional terms, to the whole of the Derivative Work, and all its - parts, regardless of how they are packaged. However, if We license - a Covered Work under Proprietary Terms, this subsection c shall - not apply to Your Derivative Work. + License will therefore apply to the whole of the Derivative Work, + and all its parts, regardless of how they are packaged. However, + if We license a Covered Work under Proprietary Terms, this + subsection c shall not apply to Your Derivative Work. d) If the Program's interactive user interfaces display Legal Notices, such Legal Notices must be preserved by Your Derivative @@ -221,48 +219,6 @@ ways: noncommercially, and only if You received the Object Code with such an offer, in accord with the preceding option. - 7. User Product Lockdown. - - A "User Product" is either (1) a "consumer product", which means any -tangible personal property which is normally used for personal, family, -or household purposes, or (2) anything designed or sold for incorporation -into a dwelling. In determining whether a product is a consumer product, -doubtful cases shall be resolved in favor of coverage. For a particular -product received by a particular user, "normally used" refers to a -typical or common use of that class of product, regardless of the status -of the particular user or of the way in which the particular user -actually uses, or expects or is expected to use, the product. A product -is a consumer product regardless of whether the product has substantial -commercial, industrial or non-consumer uses, unless such uses represent -the only significant mode of use of the product. - - "Installation Information" for a User Product means any methods, -procedures, authorization keys, or other information required to -install and execute Derivative Works of a Covered Work in that User -Product from a Derivative Work of its Corresponding Source. The -information must suffice to ensure that the continued functioning of -the Object Code Derivative Work is in no case prevented or interfered -with solely because modification has been made. - - If You distribute an Object Code work under section 5 in, or with, -or specifically for use in, a User Product, and the distributing -occurs as part of a transaction in which the right of possession and -use of the User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity -or for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is -characterized), the Corresponding Source distributed under this -section must be accompanied by the Installation Information. But this -requirement does not apply if neither You nor any third party retains -the ability to install modified Object Code on the User Product (for -example, the work has been installed in non-field-modifiable ROM). - - The requirement to provide Installation Information does not include a -requirement to continue to provide support service, warranty, or updates -for a work that has been modified or installed by the recipient, or for -the User Product in which it has been modified or installed. Access to a -network may be denied when the modification itself materially and -adversely affects the operation of the network or violates the rules and -protocols for communication across the network. - 8. Additional Terms. Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, for material -- 1.7.10.rc1.22.gf5241
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