On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:11:48 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: [...] > The "may be non-free" aspect was the requirement of requiring the > creator of the derivative work to surrender their copyright to > OpenVision. If such a requirement were in place in the license terms, > I would regard it as non-free.
I agree. *If* the clause really requires surrendering copyright in order to create and distribute a derivative work, then it's non-free since it requires a fee in exchange for the permission to create/distribute derivative works. -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html New! Version 0.6 available! What? See for yourself! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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