Andrew Donnellan wrote: > On 12/21/05, Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> wrote: >>Scripsit Cameron Dale <camrdale@gmail.com> >>>* Any form of redistribution which connects to the published Team XLink >>>Orbital Server list resource, for Orbital Server aquisition, or otherwise, >>>or which interoperates with any existing software used by other member(s) >>>of the XLink Kai: Evolution VII service, must be provided to end users at >>>no cost, and may not contain advertising information of any sort, aside >>>from one permitted link in an "About" dialog window which is not displayed >>>unless the user explicitly directs the software to display it. >> >>This is a non-free condition. It must be possible to sell copies of >>Debian packages. > > It only causes problems when you are connecting to the XLink Kai: > Evolution VII service, but I assume that the main point of the > software is to connect to that service, so unless someone else starts > up an alternative server, for pratical reasons, it's non-free. Actually, the last part of the clause is far broader than that: "or which interoperates with any existing software used by other member(s) of the XLink Kai: Evolution VII service" needs no stretch of interpretation to apply to almost any modified version. As for the rest of it, restrictions on what you can connect to a particular service should be in the terms of use for that service, not in a software license. - Josh Triplett
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