Re: ITP: keynote -- Decentralized Trust-Management system

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Martin Waitz wrote:

> hi :)
> 
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:39:59AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > Permission to use, copy, and modify this software without fee
> > > is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice is included in
> > > all copies of any software which is or includes a copy or
> > > modification of this software. 
> > So, what do you see wrong with this license? It looks like it is free to
> > me.
> 
> i see 'without fee' conflicting with dfsg #6

This refers to the lack of fee to satisfy the license, not that you can't
charge for the software. Many "free" licenses use this phrase.

The fact that you don't owe the author anything under the license _does_
in fact make the source "free".

Luck,

Dwarf
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