on Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 05:33:10PM -0700, Alex Rousskov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > I am looking for an OSI-certified, short, permissive, > non-viral, MIT/BSD/Apache-style license with the "Integrity of The > Author's Source Code" clause[1] that prohibits source-code from being > distributed in modified form (except for patches and such). > > Does such a beast exist? Anything close the the above?
qmail, though there's no formal license. See:
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=warez#djb
Generally considered non-free, though OSD v4, *if* modified binaries may
be distributed. DJB's qmail terms prohibit this last, therefore failing
OSD#4.
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
From a strategic standpoint, such licensing terms will tend to diminish
uptake and distribution of your work. Again, in the case of qmail, the
package has been dropped from all major GNU/Linux distributions on
licensing grounds, as well as OpenBSD. Possibly others.
IANAL, TINLA, YADA.
Peace.
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