On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 17:28, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Users may copy or modify Sun RPC > > without charge, but are not authorized to license or > > distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product or > > program developed by the user. > > This violates DFSG 1 and arguably DFSG 5. > > It might skate through DFSG 1's backwards-bent wording if the sentence > stopped at "part of a product or program".
I believe that the above paragraph, minus the last four words, is DFSG-free, since it doesn't actually restrict what you can do. See the discussion on the Bitstream Vera font license for more discussion on this. > But it doesn't stop there. You can't redistribute this code unless you > develop with it. This requires distributors to be software developers, > not ordinary joes who've never written a line of code in their lives. However, with the last four words included, it seems to say that you must write some form of a program yourself (and then throw in the RPC code) in order to distribute the RPC code to anybody else, which fails DFSG 5 as Branden mentioned. -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My weblog doesn't detail my personal life: http://me.woot.net
