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Re: Crack license, is it free?



On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:18:42PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:04:12PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> > Yes, from the Artistic License:
> 
> However, the Artistic License also has this:
> 
>         "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.)
> 
> Does the Crack license have a similar definition?  It's important,
> because it pulls the teeth from the "reasonable copying fee" requirement.
> 

IANAL, TINLA, IANADD etc. (see also disclaimer.h in sig)

It appears that the crack license has an even bigger exception
for the DFSG to drive through: The fee restriction is entirely
waved if crack is distributed as a component of an aggregate
software distribution containing programs from several different
sources, provided "you" do not misrepresent the identity of the
copyright holder.

But yes, that definition is (word for word) in the Crack license
too, see the original post.

Notice, by the way, that the Crack license sometimes requires
the source to be included in the binary package, since it
doesn't contain the GPL exemption about "offering access from
the same place".


Jakob


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