On 14-Jun-99, 15:14 (CDT), Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /* > * Doing my best to get this moved to -legal > */
posted to -legal only --sg :-) > On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 02:17:11PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > | Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, > > | or by mutual agreement: > > | (a) In free-of-charge or at-cost distributions by non-profit concerns; > > | (b) In free-of-charge distributions by for-profit concerns; > > | (c) Inclusion in a CD-ROM collection of free-of-charge, shareware, or > > | non-proprietary software for which a fee may be charged for the packaged > > | distribution. > > > > This might slip by, depending on the exactly what is meant by (c). It > > seems to prevent the distribution of Pico with other commercial software, > > so I think it fails DFSG 1. > > I thought that at first, however the above appear to be OR'd, not AND'd. > In that case (a) and (b) apply to our ftp sites, (c) seems to apply to > anybody's distribution of Debian on cdrom. The problem I have is not ANDing a, b, and c, but the phrase "collection of free-of-charge, shareware, or non-proprietary software". This would seem to disallow distribution of pico on a CD containing a commercial, proprietary program (for example, with the forthcoming Corel distribution). Doesn't that violate the DFSG? Steve
