J.B. Nicholson writes: > Jeffrey H. Johnson wrote: >> Redistribution and use in ‘source’ [...] and ‘compiled’ forms [...] in whole >> or in >> part, for any purpose, including commercial applications, with or without >> modification, in any medium, is hereby permitted, without fee or royalty, >> provided >> that the following conditions are met: > > Prohibiting distribution for a fee is non-free is a clear violation of > DFSG 1 (per https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines). Also, > prohibiting distribution for a fee while allowing redistribution in > "commercial applications" is confusing.
The license looks to me like it is saying that anyone distributing the work does not have to pay a fee to the original author. It does not prohibit the distributor from imposing fees on end recipients. Otherwise, the blurb about 'commercial applications' would be contradictory. As a whole, I could not find anything wrong with the license, though I did not look too carefully. The definition of 'source' and 'compiled' forms is a bit sloppy. I certainly would not recommend it. This looks equivalent to CC-BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ so I would use that instead. Cheers, Walter Landry
