Re: need comments on a copyright clause.

[Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@icenet.fi>]

Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> 
> > This seems to me to fail #9 of DFSG:
> > > 9.License Must Not Contaminate Other Software
> > >
> > > The license must not place restrictions on other software that is
> > > distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the
> > > license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the
> > > same medium must be free software.
> 
> I think "is distributed along with" does not mean "uses" or
> "is linked to". It refers to simple aggregation.
> Perhaps the sentence "License Must Not Contaminate Other Software"
> is a bit misleading though.
> 
> As I read it, it's OK to place restrictions on other software that
> uses "foo", but it's not OK to place restrictions on which software
> may be on the same CD as "foo".

Then, why the #9 doen't say 
> The license must not place restrictions on which other software (that)
> is distributed along with the licensed software.

instead it says:
> The license must not place restrictions on other software 

Therefore it's _not_ OK to place restrictions on other software that 
uses "foo"



Fabrizio
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