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Re: ELM Copyright



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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:

> > 	IMHO, with thats license, `elm' cannot be sold alone.  
> 
> that's not true.  you can sell elm on a disk by itself as long as you're
> prepared to sell a blank disk for the same price.

Maybe, but the *spirit* of the license is that you can not charge for
*distributing* ELM proper. This is against our DFSG. People should be able
to make money (not only "cover costs") from *distributing* free software.

To interpret the license by saying that you are just selling a blank disk
is a sort of cheat, IMHO.

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