Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:34:27PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> Those are both much narrower than this license, which talks about
> promotion or advertising of use or modification ("other dealings") of
> the work. So I can't file a bug report and mention the author's name,
> because that is material promoting modification of the work.
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
* copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
* to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
* the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
* and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
* Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
First off, this is a grant of permission. It does not even /purport/ to
form a contract with you. It seems to opperate entirely in copyright
law. You don't need the copyright holder's permission to comment upon
(i.e., file a bug about) his work.
I can't find a way to read this other than "When you are using the
permissions granted by this license, you must observe these
restrictions."
This isn't to say it is free; just that I don't find the suggestion that
reporting bugs on it is illegal credible.
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