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Re: Is "VIGRA Artistic License" licence free and GPL-compatible ?



Wait: "Freely Available" *is* defined at the beginning of the license:

| "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item.  It
| also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it under
| the same conditions they received it.

Whoops. I missed that.

It seems that, if I want to distribute modified versions of the Library,
I must place my modifications in the Public Domain (a non-free
requirement, since it fails DFSG#3) _or_ otherwise distribute them
without charging any fees (another non-free requirement, since it fails
DFSG#1).

This only mandates that there be *a* no-cost way to obtain the modifications versions. It does not prevent additional mays to obtain the source. This still seems non-free. It is interesting that this clause fragment was removed: ' itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item'.

If this is the case, I think that we lack free paths through this
license and must conclude that VIGRA does not currently comply with the
DFSG.





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