Re: License question
warp@whitestar.soark.net wrote:
> The license says (upper cased for hi-lighting)
>
> b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
> whole or in part contains or is derived from the Document or any
> part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at NO CHARGE to all third
> parties under the terms of this License.
>
> However section 1 of the DFSG says
>
> 1. Free Redistribution
> The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from
> selling or giving away the software as a component of an
> aggregate software distribution containing programs from several
> different sources. The license may not require a royalty or other
> fee for such sale.
>
> I'm not positive but it looks like it conflicts here..
No, that's a straight copy of text from the GPL - the same paragraph appears
in the GPL, and the "no charge" here is ok.
> The license says..
>
> c) You must not add notes to the Document implying that the
> reader had better read something produced using Texinfo.
>
> This may conflict with two sections of the DFSG..
You're probably right about this bit.
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