Projects tigase _server server-core Issues #609
Installer GNU contains unnecessary text (#609)
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Daniel Wisnewski opened 9 years ago
Due Date
2016-12-01

Installer licence page has the following

END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
    published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
    License, or (at your option) any later version.

    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 Affero General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
If your software can interact with users remotely through a computer network, you should also make sure that it provides a way for users to get its source. For example, if your program is a web application, its interface could display a "Source" link that leads users to an archive of the code. There are many ways you could offer source, and different solutions will be better for different programs; see section 13 for the specific requirements.
You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary. For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU AGPL, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

We should remove this from the installer since it's not part of the agreement.

wojciech.kapcia@tigase.net commented 9 years ago

Artur, can you comment on this?

Artur Hefczyc commented 9 years ago

GNU's recommendation is to put the whole text into the license document. I am in favor of leaving the whole text too. Especially that the end of the text explains that if the software interacts with users over the network, then the service provider has to provide users with the source code. That's the whole point why I decided to use AGPL license for our software. This sentence makes it clear so, let's leave it as it is now.

Daniel Wisnewski commented 9 years ago

The last few lines are a guideline, those network details are covered in section 13 of the GNU, the end snippet as captured is a 'for your reference' kind of section directed at us (the devs). The removal of the lines selected here does not affect the T&C as they're not a part of it.

Artur Hefczyc commented 9 years ago

I will review it at later time.

Artur Hefczyc commented 8 years ago

Ok, Daniel, please remove the part of text as you suggested, I am ok with this.

Daniel Wisnewski commented 8 years ago

Pushed to release branch, waiting for build to ensure success.

Daniel Wisnewski commented 8 years ago

Confirmed removed in b4342, closing issue.

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tigase-server-7.1.0
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tigase/_server/server-core#609
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