J.P. Pasnak wrote:
IANAL, but I come to the following conclusion:Oden Eriksson said:I suspect we never see pdflib in Mandrake? http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/aladdin-license.pdf I was thinking about to make a php-cpdf package...I'm having trouble wrapping my head around para 2(a)(ii) ...
2(a) It is illegal to distribute the program if you are a commercial organisation and charging for the distribution including pdflib unless:
2(a)(i) It is posting it on a public access area for download, where the charge is a fee for downloading an amount of data, irrespective of what that data is, e.g. $0.02 per Mb.
2(a)(ii) It is on physical media, e.g. CD, where all other information on that media is distributable for non-commerical purposes without charge, and that no other products are included with those CDs.
Mandrake do charge for boxed sets, and so fall under condition 2(a).
Exclusion 2(a)(i) does not apply to Mandrake, since no charge is made by Mandrake for downloading.
Exclusion 2(a)(ii) applies in at least the circumstance of the PowerPack, where the Mandrake CDs are accompanied by other products (StarOffice), which are not distributable for non-commerical purposes.
I think it can be in the main distribution, except when accompanied by the commercial applications in the PowerPack product.
Since it's a pain to remove one package from the distribution for the PowerPack, put it in PLF?
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Mark Scott
