Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Wart wrote:
While I was packaging angband, I came across this questionable license
text. Before I spend too much time with this, I wanted to verify that
the first paragraph is valid. In particular, it says that the software
can be copied and distributed for non-for-profit purposes, that is, not
for commercial purposes. Does this disqualify it as an OSI-compatible
license?
Yes it does. It is not a OSI compatible since the OSI definition, claus
6 disallows a OSI license to discriminate against fields of endeavor.
Refer to http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php for more details.
Indeed it does. This subject actually comes up quite frequent and it
seems relevant in the non-free FE repo discussion we had on the -devel list.
Now I'm no fan of non-free software, but IMHO opinion I think it is fair
if people give something away for free including source et all that they
disallow commercial use.
So I would like to propose creating a not for commercial use repo under
the fedora umbrella. I know some people are afraid that this will cause
pollution of the really free parts, so this repo would have to follow
the following rules:
-not enabled in default FC repo config
-may not be used by FE packages to depend on, IOW any package depending
on a package in non-commercial automaticly must itself be in
non-commercial.
-for the allowed non-commercial use it should be 100% free, so derative
works, redistributing (modfied) versions and (modified) source should
all be allowed.
And maybe:
-the license should explicitly state, that a license for commercial use
can be had by contacting (and paying) the copyright holder.
Regards,
Hans
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