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Re: Is the OSL DFSG free?



* Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> [2003-09-02 11:49]:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:02:50PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>>  Isn't Section 10 of the OSL ("Mutual Termination for Patent Action") a
>> violation of Section 5 of the DFSG ("No Discrimination Against Persons
>> or Groups")?  It clearly discriminates persons filing a law suite
>> against a OSL licensed software.  I would even see it as valid that it
>> violates Section 9 of the DFSG ("License Must Not Contaminate Other
>> Software").
> 
> When referring to a license, it's useful to provide a URL to the text of
> the license in question.

 Sorry, my fault: <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl.php>

 So long,
Alfie
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