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Re: prozilla: Nonfree



On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:16:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> > Confirmed; requirements to notify the author are non-free.

> Bullshit.  There's no requirement whatsoever that a source file may be
> used at all "commercially", assuming the common definition of
> "commercial" == "closed source".

Such a definition is wrong, and will not appear in any dictionary entry for
that word.  This license is clearly non-free in the absence of clarification
from the author, as it fails DFSG #6.

Please base your arguments in favor of the freeness of a given license on
something more substantial than Shit You Made Up.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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