Le mercredi 09 mars 2005 � 10:26 -0600, Christofer C. Bell a �crit : > The license also seems to contradict itself here: > > > 1. You may use, sell or give away the Licensed Product, alone or as a > > component of > > an aggregate software distribution containing programs from > > several different > > sources. No royalty or other fee is required. > > This clause states that the Licensed Product can be sold. > > > 2. Both Source Code and executable versions of the Licensed Product, > > including > > Modifications made by previous Contributors, are available for > > your use. (The terms > > "Licensed Product," "Modifications," "Contributors" and "Source > > Code" are defined > > in the License.) > > This clause states that the Licensed Product can come in a "source > code" form. Note that the licensed product can be sold as per clause > 1. > > > 6. If you sublicense the Licensed Product or Derivative Works, you may > > charge fees > > for warranty or support, or for accepting indemnity or liability > > obligations to your > > customers. You cannot charge for the Source Code. > > This clause prohibits the charging of money for the source code form > of the licensed product which we've already been granted license to > sell by the clauses 1 and 2.
This is not the license itself, but the preamble. And even taking it as a part of the license, you could still sell a hello world C program alongside, and you could charge for it. We always considered such things free. > The point about not being allowed to sell the source code (as per > clause 6) seems out of placed based on what I believe the intent of > the clause to be. Regardless, saying via the first two clauses that > one can sell the source code, and then saying in clause 6 that you > can't is a pretty clear self-contradiction in my opinion. I think the author meant you cannot charge an *extra fee* for the source code. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
