[OT] open-source license issues

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 12.04.2011 20:11, schrieb "Jérôme M. Berger":
> Daniel Gibson wrote:
>> Am 12.04.2011 12:45, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
>>> Actually, because of that, I could likely be enticed by an (L)GPL-like 
>>> license if it was actually readable like zlib, BSD, or MIT, and easier for 
>>> users/developers to comply with.
>>>
>>
>> Even though the GPL isn't easy to read I think it's not too hard to
>> comply with (at least v2). Basically it's "release the source of your
>> changes, don't mix in source from incompatible licenses and don't delete
> the original authors from the GPL headers"
> 
> 	Not quite: you not only have to release the source of *your*
> changes, but you also have to distribute the *whole* source (whether
> you made any changes or not).
> 
> 		Jerome

If you don't change the source a link to the project homepage should
suffice.
And a link to the original source + your patch should be ok as well.