esr@xxxxxxxxxxx ("Eric S. Raymond") writes:
> ...
> The open-source community figured out by about 1997-1998 that there is no
> way to discriminate between "commercial" and "noncommercial" activity
> that does not create fatal uncertainties about who has what rights at
> what times. When you add the problems of mixing software with licenses
> having *different versions* of such a distinction the downside gets even
> worse.
>
> Thus, the licensing guidelines of both the OSI and FSF forbid attempts at
> this.
This only matters if you intend to limit redistribution. The older BSD
licenseware limits only liability, not redistribution, and thus doesn't
care about details like commerce. This could be a lesson for IETF if we
really are going to address IPR issues in the boilerplate by adopting any
kind of "open source" attitude.
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Paul Vixie
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