Re: New license for UW-IMAP
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:44:55AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Er, hang on. Isn't this similar to the restrictions in the NPL?
> www.mozilla.org is giving me 502s, so I can't check directly, but in an
> essay by Bruce Perens on the DFSG/OSD he says:
>
> An important feature of the NPL is that it contains special privileges
> that apply to Netscape and nobody else. It gives Netscape the
> privilege of re-licensing modifications that you've made to their
> software. They can take those modifications private, improve them, and
> refuse to give you the result.
No problem there.
> To me, this looks like a fair summary of the UW licence too. The NPL is
> a pain in many ways, and it's certainly GPL-incompatible, but
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html acknowledges it as a
> free software licence. Thus, simply allowing a privileged party to steal
> your changes and make them proprietary is not sufficient to render a
> licence non-DFSG-free.
gnu's criteria are not the DFSG criteria.
Which reminds me: I need to write up a proposal for the DFSG modification
vote thingy..
--
Raul
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