* Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> [2003-09-02 18:46]:
> 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.
>
> This sort of rationale is usually bogus.
>
> In its ultimate form, the MIT/X11 license is "non-free" because it
> discriminates against people trying to sell the software.
Thats one of the reason why we put software that is "for non-commercial
use only" into non-free. Your point was?
So long,
Alfie
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