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Re: prozilla: Nonfree



On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:03:19PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Please use X-Debbugs-CC to Cc bug reports.  See
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:44:13AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > ftpparse.c heading:
> > 
> > 	Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs
> > 	you're using this in.
> > 
> > Which I believes fails the desert-island test?  Legal, can you
> > confirm?
> 
> No.  Why would "commercial use" matter?  Anything licensed under the GPL
> doesn't allow "commercial use" at all.

<raises eyebrow> How did you come to that conclusion?  I know no shortage of
people who are using GPL'd software for commercial purposes, and no sane GPL
licence holder has ever challenged that use as far as I know.

Of greater worry, anyway, is that if the section quoted above is the
entirety of the licence for that source file, we're stuffed, because it
doesn't provide any of the usual freedoms we need.

- Matt

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