Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License
On 2004-03-08 02:46:15 +0000 selussos <mgr@x-oz.com> wrote:
I am not in the United States. Copyright law here has no "fair use"
term in
it, only a restricted "fair dealing" provision. We cannot rely on
the US
copyright law's "fair use" contradicting your licence terms in a way
that
makes it a free software licence. I ask that you familiarise
yourself with
this basic problem of copyright and free software. Software that is
"free
only for US residents" isn't free software (or "open source" AIUI).
I am unaware of what AIUI means so I cannot comment on this at all.
That's parenthetical, so hardly enough to prevent a comment on the
substantial part: you cannot rely on US "fair use" doctrine combining
with your licence to make it free software.
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) :
AIUI
As I Understand It (telecommunication-slang, Usenet, IRC)
I suggest http://www.dict.org/ as a handy tool.
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