On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:04:13 -0800 (PST) Ottavio Caruso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Elive <http://www.elivecd.org/gb/Download/Stable/>, based on Debian, > requires a donation, however small, to allow downloading. I wonder if > this legally sound. The DFSG explicitly specifies that licenses of our software must allow people to charge for distribution in article #1: http://www.us.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines 1. Free Redistribution The license of a Debian component may 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 may not require a royalty or other fee for such sale. Besides, your assertion is false. Elive does not require a donation to download: "- If you don't care about the future of Elive, and you really think its possible to live off nothing, or you just can't possibly make a minor donation, then you can download Elive from a slow server. We recommend that you verify the MD5sum and download it with 'wget -c' because sometimes this download stalls." Ben -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
