Re: RFS: snes9x
On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 02:14 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 01:07:59AM +0200, Arno Töll wrote:
> > On 03.10.2011 00:51, Michael Moorman wrote:
> > > Is the non-commercial use clause what
> > > makes it non-free according to the DFSG?
> > >
> >
> > quoting from the license (highlighting by me):
> >
> > > Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute Snes9x in both binary and
> > > source form, for non-commercial purposes, is hereby granted without fee,
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > providing that this license information and copyright notice appear with
> > > all copies and any derived work.
> >
> > That's a clear contradiction to our Debian Free Software Guidelines
> > (DFSG) where I quote §6 ("No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor")
> > [1]. So yes, this restriction makes your package non-free. Everything
> > else reads ok to me and would qualify as free software.
>
> Perhaps you could contact upstream and ask for a relicensing? I fail to see
> what this restriction gets them, there's no separate commercial version of
> snes9x as far as I know.
>
> --
> 1KB // Yo momma uses IPv4!
>
>
That was tried in the past. Someone wanted to change the license to GPL
so that an Android port could be sold on Android marketplace, but some
of the developers refused. They don't want any license that allows other
people to make money on it.
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