On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this material for any > purpose and without fee is hereby granted, I'm concerned that this restricts us (or our cd vendors) from being able to distribute the material for a fee [ie, on cd images and the like.] If it was written 'with or without fee' I suppose it would be ok, or if there was some clarification that indicated that a reasonable fee for the medium could be charged. [For reference, the X Consortium and the Open Group's licenses[1] don't have this problem, because they enumerate 'sell this material' as one of the permissions granted... and this license seems to follow their lead.] > I am a bit worried about the line: 'that the name of any author not > be used in advertising or publicity bla bla'. Debian won't > explicitely advertise this widget I guess, so that would be okay? That worried me a bit as well, although what I presume they mean is that you may not use bellcore or the authors names to endorse your product or whatever. Perhaps a clarification from the author would be sufficient here? (The other X style licenses are much clearer in this regard.) Don Armstrong 1: http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE2.html#3 -- Build a fire for a man, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -- Jules Bean http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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