On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:30:36PM -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this material for any > > purpose and without fee is hereby granted, > > I'm concerned that this restricts us (or our cd vendors) from being > able to distribute the material for a fee [ie, on cd images and the > like.]
Does this mean that you can do these things without paying a fee to upstream, or that you can only do these things if you don't charge a fee for doing so? > If it was written 'with or without fee' I suppose it would be ok, or > if there was some clarification that indicated that a reasonable fee > for the medium could be charged. It needs to be able to be sold in aggregate to pass DFSG#1. > > I am a bit worried about the line: 'that the name of any author not > > be used in advertising or publicity bla bla'. Debian won't > > explicitely advertise this widget I guess, so that would be okay? > > That worried me a bit as well, although what I presume they mean is > that you may not use bellcore or the authors names to endorse your > product or whatever. Perhaps a clarification from the author would be > sufficient here? (The other X style licenses are much clearer in this > regard.) This seems to be the same as the 3-clause BSD license's third clause. I believe negative advertising clauses are always OK. (Though, I wonder what would happen if I, having contributed somewhat to a BSD or Xbae-licensed program, were to give permission to Debian to use my world-famous name in its advertising. Since I don't hold sole the copyright of the program I contributed to, I can't simply waive this ...) -- Glenn Maynard
