On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 06:37:55PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:03:19PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Please use X-Debbugs-CC to Cc bug reports. See > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting. > > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:44:13AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > ftpparse.c heading: > > > > > > Commercial use is fine, if you let me know what programs > > > you're using this in. > > > > > > Which I believes fails the desert-island test? Legal, can you > > > confirm? > > > > No. Why would "commercial use" matter? Anything licensed under the GPL > > doesn't allow "commercial use" at all. > > <raises eyebrow> How did you come to that conclusion? I know no shortage of > people who are using GPL'd software for commercial purposes, and no sane GPL > licence holder has ever challenged that use as far as I know.
I'm assuming since it's in from a source file, it means the source cannot be used a "commercial" product. Why would end-user use have anything to do with it? > Of greater worry, anyway, is that if the section quoted above is the > entirety of the licence for that source file, we're stuffed, because it > doesn't provide any of the usual freedoms we need. It's not a license at all. It sounds like DJB intends for it to be free but it certainly could use clarification. A quick google search shows that it's used in a lot of free software already. -- Society is never going to make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
