>> > You are free to use Batch (the "icon set") or any part thereof (the >> > "icons") in any personal, open-source or commercial work without >> > obligation of payment (monetary or otherwise) or attribution. Do not >> > sell the icon set, host the icon set or rent the icon set (either in >> > existing or modified form). > [...] >> That is apparent *nonfree* licence, probably a homebrew one, so it >> does not have any name. > > I'm saying this with no particular authority
Neither do I, of course. > but it seems to me that the two conflicting statements I’m afraid, I cannot see any conflicting statements here. Do you mean that ‘commercial’ should be read as ‘sale’? There are many pretty valid commercial activities that are possible with a piece of software besides selling or renting it to someone, and I cannot not a reason why a proprietor of a nonfree software might not wish to forbid only these two. (And otherwise: does the word ‘sale’ by itself imply solely commercial basis in the USA?) > are meant to do something similar to the SIL Open Font License — > allow the content to be used as part of a work but to forbid its > sale _as a thing in itself_. It might be worth noting, that SIL OFL explicitly *allows* selling a font accompanied by another work: | 2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, | redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy | contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be | included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or | in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or | binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user. > I'll leave it to legal to say whether they agree that that's the > probably intent and whether it *works* like that. If that is a homebrew licence, the best thing to do, I suppose, would be to request clarifications from authors of the icon set. Thankfully, there are only couple of them, as I can see. _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
