Re: Elive requires donation to download
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:04:13 -0800 (PST)
Ottavio Caruso <pr0f3ss0r1492@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Elive <http://www.elivecd.org/gb/Download/Stable/>, based on Debian,
> requires a donation, however small, to allow downloading. I wonder if
> this legally sound.
The DFSG explicitly specifies that licenses of our software must allow people to charge for distribution in article #1:
http://www.us.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
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.
Besides, your assertion is false. Elive does not require a donation to download:
"- If you don't care about the future of Elive, and you really think its possible to live off nothing, or you just can't possibly make a minor donation, then you can download Elive from a slow server. We recommend that you verify the MD5sum and download it with 'wget -c' because sometimes this download stalls."
Ben
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