Laszlo Lebrun wrote: > Do you know about any jurisprudence about that question?
I'm pretty sure that commercial applications in legal use means something different to commercial software applications, so I'd say that the act of distribution itself is sometimes a commercial application. I'm not aware of a particularly clear definition of "commercial application" in law but I'm no lawyer. One definition from Football Association Premier League Ltd & Ors v QC Leisure & Ors [2008] EWHC 1411 (Ch) seems to be "for the purposes of trade and [...] for commercial use" compared with private, which is "for his and his family's personal use and only at his home or workplace". However, note that the debian free software guidelines are broken by software which limits commercial applications, so they should not be part of the distribution. http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines Hope that explains, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
