• Nethack General Public License

    From Joshua Allen@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 28 17:50:01 2023
    Dear Debian Legal,

    I was going through the Nethack General Public License and even though
    it is a free software license obviously not compatible with the GNU GPL,
    how do you maintain it without calling it nethack though since the only official nethack releases can be called nethack. If you were to append
    the same license on top of the NGPL but remove references to nethack, it
    would still qualify because the terms are the same im just changing the
    name of the program derivative.

    Hence for example:

        <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
        Copyright (C) 20yy  <name of author>

        This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
        it under the terms of the Nethack General Public License as
    published by Nethack.org

        Since Nethack.org owns the trademark to Nethack, references to
    Nethack in the NGPL refer to <program name>.


        This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
        but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
        MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
        GNU General Public License for more details.

        You should have received a copy of the Nethack General Public License
        along with this program; if not, go to https://www.nethack.org/common/license.html

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  • From MJ Ray@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 30 09:40:01 2023
    Le 28 juin 2023 16:25:09 GMT+01:00, Joshua Allen <[email protected]> a écrit :
    Dear Debian Legal,

    I was going through the Nethack General Public License and even though it is a free software license obviously not compatible with the GNU GPL, how do you maintain it without calling it nethack though since the only official nethack releases can be
    called nethack. If you were to append the same license on top of the NGPL but remove references to nethack, it would still qualify because the terms are the same im just changing the name of the program derivative.

    I don't see the problem with maintaining it. You do not have to remove references to nethack. You only cannot call other things nethack inaccurately.

    Hope that explains,
    --
    MJR

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