Maybe it's just that I'm tired after reading heavy stuff all day, but ... I think they have reduced the distinction to nearly one of pure semantics and dogma, but NO substance.
Under this license, I can: - use it for commercial or non-commercial stuff - distribute Source - create derivative works and distribute them It is silent on restrictions on distribution WRT persons/uses/fees (only has this para 2 thing), and silent on fee required for this grant. (Call me old-fashioned, but I still like to see "grant" in the text.) Does require that further distro be under this license, which gives subsequent recipient all rights I cited above (plus usual use rights). So, it only says that I cannot, in effect, do something that _uses_another_license_ to REQUIRE of subsequent distros, what this license accomplishes explicitly in its own language. How parochial is that ?!? Ok, somebody please set me straight. Cheers. dj ******************************************************** Don B Jarrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital Thinking Inc. 512 266 7126 office www.digitalthinkinginc.com 972 467 6793 mobile ******************************************************** > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Behlendorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 9:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Microsoft's near-OSD-compliant shared > source license > > > > http://www.asp.net/samplessourcelicense/Default.asp > x?tabindex=0&tabid=1 > > Any thoughts? > > This is perhaps the one segment that makes it not > OSD-compliant, > violating OSD #9, but I'm not sure: > > [You agree] [t]hat you are not allowed to > combine or distribute the > Software with other software that is licensed > under terms that seek to > require that the Software (or any intellectual > property in it) be > provided in source code form, licensed to others > to allow the creation > or distribution of derivative works, or > distributed without charge. > > It even includes a patent poison pill! > > Brian > > -- > license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3 -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
