First, someone who sends the same email to at least four mailing lists (freebsd, wine-devel, postgresql-hackers and ossi) is a spammer in my book. Replying to his email, especially to lists that are not relevant (i.e. - any but ossi) is helping him along.
To answer his (asked) question - since this license is clearly LGPL incompatible, I don't think he is likely to make contributions to Wine under this license. At least, not contributions that will be accepted. As his license is also BSD incompatible, I dare say it is equally off topic for FreeBSD and postgresql.
This guy is obviously trying to solve the "how can I make money from free software" dillema by introducing a proprietary license and calling it "OpenSource". Interesting idea, but it has been tried before (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/default.mspx, except they didn't have the audacity to call it open source). This is just a proprietary license. Nothing more to see here. Move along.
Shachar
P.S.
I am not subscribed to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. A search of the archives did not show this particular Richard Schilling post. I was not sure whether to dump this mail (which is just as off topic as the original one) on that list as well. I'm sorry if I chose wrong.
I did notice that on [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard is at least an occasional poster. Here on Wine-devel he is a first time poster as far as I can see. This may explain the difference in responses between the lists.
Sh.
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Richard Schilling wrote:
I would like to present to you all a new Open Source software license I've written up.
[ ... ]
One the face of it, Section III, "Distribution Restrictions and Obligations." of your license fails to comply with OSD #1 & 2:
"1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
2. Source Code
The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form...."
See http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php.
-- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/
_______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
