Re: please check new blitz license
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, John Lapeyre wrote:
>
> Hi, the blitz people are proposing a new Artistic based license
> [1], with this significant modification:
>
> 2. You may not charge a fee for distributing the Library
> (or portions of it) in source code form without specific prior
> written permission of the Copyright Holder.
>
> This may conflict with this statement from the DFSG [2]
>
> 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.
>
> However, I think that they are not in conflict. It is just that the blitz
> license does not explicitly allow what is prohibited in the DFSG.
>
> [1] http://seurat.uwaterloo.ca/blitz/legal/
> [2] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
Nope. All debian packages must be distributable, in source and binary
form, for profit.
Otherwise we couldn't put them on CDs, could we...
Although there is a deeper issue than that involved.
Jules
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