Taken from the Artistic License (which is approved by OSI): 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a product of your own.
-- According to this, it is acceptable for me to say "You may not charge a fee for the Package itself." - especially since I also went on to say in my license, "However, you may charge..." just as the Artistic License does. -- And furthermore, the effect is greatly different in my opinion. I am not asking the users to post their changes on bulletin board systems, etc. Why are you suddenly being hard nosed with me? My license went through the review process. It was discussed by the members of your list. Some of your list members fully supported my reasoning behind wanting a new license approved. They also said that they would support approving my license. As I said before, if you will not approve my license, that's fine. I'll just post a message on my website stating your apparent "selective decision making process" even when a license complies with your OSD. -Samuel -----Original Message----- From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 12:23 PM To: Robert Samuel White Subject: RE: Modified Artistic License (eNetwizard Content Application Server) Robert Samuel White writes: > Russ, some of the conditions set forth within my license are unique to > my license and cannot be found in any other license. And for good reason. I just noticed this: "You may not charge any fees for the Package itself." The OSD doesn't let you not charge a fee for the Package. People are allowed to sell open source software as long as they comply with the license. So no, unless you want to take that section out, it's not approvable. I've reviewed your license, and quite frankly, it's nothing special. Yes, you have quite a bit of language in there which differs from any existing licenses, but the effect of the language is not different than the language in other licenses. > I want my license associated specifically with my product. That's > very important to me... It's not important to us. Reducing the number of redundant licenses is. -- -russ nelson http://russnelson.com | Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | businesses persuade 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | governments coerce Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
