Re: bzflag license

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 02:37:53AM +0200, Juergen A. Erhard wrote:
> 
>   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.
> 
> It doesn't forbid forbidding the sale of the package *separately* from
> a distribution, as both the AL and bzflag's license do...

Note that this interpretation renders the clause useless, because I can
always put bzflag + a lot of junk or other software on a CD and sell it for
lots of $$$.

I wish upstream authors would get a clue and avoid such nonsense, which
doesn't really mean anything but makes knots in your forehead when you think
about it..

Thanks,
Marcus


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