diff --git a/test/libburner.c b/test/libburner.c index 29abfc7..937fce4 100644 --- a/test/libburner.c +++ b/test/libburner.c @@ -629,18 +629,47 @@ finish_libburn:; /* License and copyright aspects: - Here and now this is provided under GPL only. - Read. Try. Think. Play. Write yourself some code. Be free of my copyright. +This all is provided under GPL. +Read. Try. Think. Play. Write yourself some code. Be free of my copyright. - Be also invited to study the code of cdrskin/cdrskin.c et al. +Be also invited to study the code of cdrskin/cdrskin.c et al. - If you can tell me a good reason why not to start your application from - scratch or to derive a first version with joint copyright and then - carefully strip off my code, then ask me for a BSD license. :) - libburner is a compilation of my own contributions to test/burniso.c and - fresh code which replaced the remaining parts under copyright of - Derek Foreman. - My respect and my thanks to Derek for providing me a start back in 2005. +Clarification in my name and in the name of Mario Danic, copyright holder +on toplevel of libburn. To be fully in effect after the remaining other +copyrighted code has been replaced by ours and by copyright-free contributions +of our friends: + +We, the copyright holders, agree on the interpretation that +dynamical linking of our libraries constitutes "use of" and +not "derivation from" our work in the sense of GPL, provided +those libraries are compiled from our unaltered code. + +Thus you may link our libraries dynamically with applications +which are not under GPL. You may distribute our libraries and +application tools in binary form, if you fulfill the usual +condition of GPL to offer a copy of the source code -altered +or unaltered- under GPL. + +We ask you politely to use our work in open source spirit +and with the due reference to the entire open source community. + +If there should really arise the case where above clarification +does not suffice to fulfill a clear and neat request in open source +spirit that would otherwise be declined for mere formal reasons, +only in that case we will duely consider to issue a special license +covering only that special case. +It is the open source idea of responsible freedom which will be +decisive and you will have to prove that you exhausted all own +means to qualify for GPL. + +For now we are firmly committed to maintain one single license: GPL. + +History: +libburner is a compilation of my own contributions to test/burniso.c and +fresh code which replaced the remaining parts under copyright of +Derek Foreman. +My respect and my thanks to Derek for providing me a start back in 2005. + */