On Thursday 21 July 2005 04:49 pm, Gerasimos Melissaratos wrote: > X-Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs-MailScanner: Found to be clean > X-MailScanner-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'd like to create a package for ng-spice, which seems to be governed by > two licenses, which I include herein. In first reading I cannot see any > real discrepancies, but of course IANAL. Pls tell me if any of them is > compatible with DFSG. I'm surprised no one has responded to this yet... so I guess I'll get the ball rolling. Its my opinion that both licenses are non-free, for reasonably well established and non-controversial reasons. License 1 contains a limitation on use ("educational, research and non-profit purposes, without fee") which is a violation of DFSG #6. License 2 is less obvious, but I personally believe that a provision that forbids charging a fee for distribution is non-free, or at least bad policy. Certainly having a package that prohibits charging for distribution would prevent it from being on a Debian CD sold by one of the vendors. Based on the DFSG I'd have to point to #1 and #6... but both are kind of stretches. Anyone else have thoughts? -- Sean Kellogg 3rd Year - University of Washington School of Law Graduate & Professional Student Senate Treasurer UW Service & Activities Committee Interim Chair w: http://probonogeek.blogspot.com So, let go ...Jump in ...Oh well, what you waiting for? ...it's all right ...'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown