On Mon, 09 Sep 2002, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 10:00:36PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> Redistribution and use in source form ONLY, with or without >> modification, is permitted provided that the following conditions are >> met: > > "source form ONLY" is not compliant with "...must allow distribution > in source code as well as compiled form." See section 2 of DFSG. More than that, this license strictly read doesn't even enable you to *use* the software, as you can't (normally) use a perl script without compiling it into bytecode. [Now, I assume that this was not the intention of the developer, and you could probably get a judgement either way, but license writing is best left to professionals.] Don Armstrong -- I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to say "excuse me, that didn't make any sense." ;-P -- Cory Doctorow http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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