Sam Clegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I maintain debain packages of perforce client and server for use > within my company. I was wondering if these packages would be > candidates for inclusion in non-free. [...]
> AFAICT the binaries are freely distributable: Can you please post the exact text of the license terms to this thread, so we can discuss in context? > Although perforce is a long way from being free software they are > friendly to open source projects and provide server licenses to such > projects at no cost. What you describe seems no more than "we're happy for more people to agree to our non-free license terms so our software becomes more widely used, at zero marginal cost to ourselves". I don't see how that one-sided bargain can be described as "friendly". The terms of the bargain are still non-free, which is harmful and antisocial, not friendly. > Please CC me on replies. Done. -- \ "I went to the cinema, it said 'Adults: $5.00, Children $2.50'. | `\ So I said 'Give me two boys and a girl.'" -- Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
