On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:08:36 +0000 John Halton wrote: > On 06/12/2007, John Leuner <jewel@subvert-the-dominant-paradigm.net> > wrote: > > I would like to ask if the following license meets the DFSG. Clause > > ii of the license says that the license is terminated if you sue any > > author. > > I don't think that in itself makes the licence non-free (the CDDL > includes a similar provision relating to patent claims). Please don't get me started on the unpleasant CDDL: I don't have the entire night available for discussions on debian-legal! ;-) > > Can't comment on the rest of the licence: it's a pretty horrible piece > of drafting, Agreed (it's contorted and almost unreadable). > but it seems to allow people to produce free software > implementations of the specification. I think that the original question was more about the DFSG-freeness of the AMQP specification itself, rather than about the possibility of developing DFSG-free programs which follow the specification... (IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP) -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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