Marius Amado Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It is clear to me that OSD #6 does not prohibit direct sale of the > > software. I've never heard anybody seriously claim otherwise. > > It's another thing. By clause 6, you must either sell to all > recipients, or give away to all recipients. I think this makes > software sale incompatible with bazaar-like development. But I must > ponder this and other things I've learned in this discussion. Thanks.
Software sale may indeed be incompatible with bazaar-like development. The point is that it is not incompatible with open source licensing. Open source does not imply bazaar. As I said earlier, the cathedral model of development is just as much open source, and was indeed used by the FSF for a long time. > > Certainly neither the GPL nor the BSD license prohibit sale of the > > software. > > Then they should stop saying "because this software is provided free > of charge..." Neither license says that. Read them again. Ian -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
