On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:30PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:03:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > What they *mean* seems fairly obvious to me: you can recompile the source > (presumably for different architectures or library versions), and > distribute those binaries, but you can't modify the source and > distribute binaries based on that. > > (I personally detest this type of thing, and all licenses that release > source but don't let you use it properly. It strikes me as people > trying to get the benefits of open source for themselves--people submitting > patches, finding bugs in the source for you--without giving back anything at > all to the OSS community.) Precisely, which is why we must reject such licenses as non-DFSG-free. -- G. Branden Robinson | Convictions are more dangerous Debian GNU/Linux | enemies of truth than lies. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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