Re: Is this license within the DSFG?
Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a quotes:
> No charge, other than an "at-cost" distribution fee, may be charged for
> copies, derivations, or distributions of this material without the
> express written consent of the copyright holders.
I wrote:
> Non-free.
Peter S Galbraith writes:
> Why?
And quotes:
> You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
> Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package.
> You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, you may
> distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly commercial)
> programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software distribution
> provided that you do not advertise this Package as a product of your own.
And writes:
> What's the difference?
Read the second sentence in the portion of the Artistic License that you
quoted. It grants permission to sell CD's with Perl on them as long there
is other stuff as well. Also read this, from the definitions section:
> "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the basis of
> media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on.
> (You will not be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but only
> to the computing community at large as a market that must bear the fee.)
This turns the clause you quoted into a non-binding request.
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