Re: AROS License DFSG ok?
* Henning Makholm:
> | 3.2. Availability of Source Code.
> | Any Modification which You create or to which You contribute must be
> | made available in Source Code form under the terms of this License
> | either on the same media as an Executable version or via an accepted
> | Electronic Distribution Mechanism to anyone to whom you made an
> | Executable version available; and if made available via Electronic
> | Distribution Mechanism, must remain available for at least twelve
> | (12) months after the date it initially became available, or at
> | least six (6) months after a subsequent version of that particular
> | Modification has been made available to such recipients. You are
> | responsible for ensuring that the Source Code version remains
> | available even if the Electronic Distribution Mechanism is
> | maintained by a third party.
>
> And regardless of freedom, Debian's mirror network cannot comply with
> this condition, so it would seem that it cannot even go into non-free,
> unless absolutely no upstream changes are necessary (in which case
> security updates would still be impossible).
Again, this clause is part of the MPL, which is presently considered
DFSG-free. Furthermore, it's weaker than the corresponding GPL
clause.
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