On Wednesday 14 November 2001 10:11 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:58:54AM -0500, Forrest J. Cavalier III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Currently OSD #1 reads: > > The license shall not restrict any party from selling > > or giving away the software as a component of an > > aggregate software distribution containing programs > > from several different sources. The license shall > > not require a royalty or other fee for such sale. > > > > I propose it be changed to: > > The license shall not restrict any party from selling > > or giving away copies of the software, either separately > > or as a component of an aggregate software distribution > > containing programs from several different sources. The > > license shall not require a royalty or other fee to make > > or use such copies. > > I'm opposed to such a change until it's demonstrated that the > existing definition doesn't already achieve this effect. I've > posted my rationale for suggesting it does.
Your rationsale only considers the USA. However, there are also other jurisdictions in the world. So I think it is better if the OSD is explicit that use is allowed. -- *** Philip Hunt *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
