Re: Open Software License v2.1

[Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 07:38:14PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> The form of both is "Since <person> performs <action>, <person> shall
>> be punished by terminating their license". The claim was that this is
>> somehow acceptable.
>
> There are cases where this is acceptable.
>
> For example, where <action> involves distributing a GPL licensed program
> without including the copyright notices.

I disagree.  I think the phrasing Andrew should have used is "Since
<person> performs <action reserved to licensor without this license>..."

> More generally, actions which would make free software not be treated as
> free software would seem to be acceptable actions to discriminate against.

That sounds overbroad.

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu