On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 02:50:50AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Patrice Dumas wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:16:34PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> A requirement to send modifications to anybody is non-free. A request to >>> do so as in the Academic Free License is not. >> A request? It is not a request, it is an obligation, there is a 'must': >> You must make a reasonable effort under the circumstances to obtain the >> express assent of recipients. > > Checking again, this section comes under "Acceptance and Termination" > > "You must make a reasonable effort under the circumstances to obtain the > express assent of recipients to the terms of this License" > > This does not talk about sending modifications to the original author or to > anyone else for that matter. It only tells you to make reasonable efforts > to communicate the terms of the license to recipients bound by it. Ah, ok, I understand it now. Sorry for that, it is really an english issue... > Any license that mandates a requirement to send all modifications to the > original authors is clearly non-free. Academic Free License does not do > that. The other licenses you quotes appear to do this. Ok. It is noted in the texlive review, and I think that there is some review by legal. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
