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Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?



Simon Law <sfllaw@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 05:15:16PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> The summary claims that clause 4 makes the license non-free. Since
>> clause 4 is identical to what's contained in the X11 license, it makes
>> it difficult to take the summary terribly seriously.
> 
> 	Read more carefully.
> 
> 	Clause 4 of the X-Oz license is a condition on "rights to use,
> copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
> of the Software".
>
> 	This is not the same wording as the X11 license at all.

The wording of the clause is identical. Are you claiming that the
differing location of it in the license alters the situations that it
applies to?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org



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