Springlobby, spring-engine, spring-mods-kernelpanic packages in New queue

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Mon Sep 14 15:10:56 BST 2009


James Westby [2009-09-14 14:14 +0100]:
>   Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is
>   requested to send the modifications to the original developer so that
>   they can be incorporated into the canonical version.

I would read this as a "should", not a "is required", and as such
doesn't really restrict the GPL, as far as I understand it.

I agree to James that it would be better to put these kinds of
statements at the top of the license, aside from the official
legalese, though.

Martin
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