On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Raul Miller wrote: > In principle, this gives them the right to restrict use. However, > since restrictions on use contradict federal copyright law, I'm dubious.
So you think this portion of UCITA might be unenforceable in general then? > > c. Upon distribution, the source code of all modifications to the > > Program must be made available free of charge to TCG as > > specified on the Web page at > > http://www.steelblue.com/modifications/ . > > Since this is subject to change, and since we can't guarantee that > everyone who has access to the source can check this URL, I'm queasy > about saying this meets DFSG. So you're saying that this violates DFSG on grounds of the license not being distributed with the program. :} Hm. Well, I can't really dispute that, unless TCG could be made to agree to change it so that these terms were made part of the license rather than located on a URL. > > 5. TERMINATION. In the event of any default or failure of User to ... > This makes 4.c., above, particularly nasty. I still don't see the problem with this clause...