On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:18:10PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > 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. > > Nothing in this prevents a license from requiring click-wrap. > [...] > > Derived Works > > The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must > allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license > of the original software. > > Nothing in this prevents a license from requiring click-wrap. You can > modify the software as much as you want. When you distribute the > software, the terms of the license require that you acquire > affirmative agreement with the license. Same terms.
I think you're trying to have it both ways here. If the license stipulates a need to "acquire affirmative agreement with the license" as a condition of distribution, then that's a restriction on giving away the software. If the license allows free distribution but specifies that the software must acquire this agreement when it's run, then that's a restriction on distribution of derived works. In other words, a click-wrap license may be able to meet these guidelines individually, but not both at once. Richard Braakman
