Marius Amado Alves scripsit: > Why are the other conditions e.g. the requirement to distribute under > the same license (GPL) not considered "restrictions"?
In addition to the reasons mentioned by others, there is also the fact that the GPL, BSD, Artistic, and MIT licenses are *prior* to the OSD (and its earlier version the Debian Free Software Guidelines). If the OSD says that one of those licenses is not free/open source, so much the worse for the OSD, and it will need to be changed or clarified. So far this hasn't been seriously needed. You can never entirely trap a slippery reality in a net of words. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold: "Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one." English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon." -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
