"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone know where I can get a .deb of the AT&T ksh. It's Open Source >now, you know.
It looks dodgy to me. If you're redistributing it, you have to periodically check the website for modifications, agree not to frame the AT&T website, agree not to break US law (there's no place for this in a licence agreement - I'm not a US citizen, so why should I have to keep US law? Even if I were, surely I would be bound not to break the law anyway?), and various other stuff. This means everybody redistributing Debian (like CD vendors) would end up bound to check AT&T's website every couple of months, and that sort of thing. Under section 4, Debian would have to make sure everybody who installs the package has to explicitly accept the licence agreement, and whoever packages it would have to make sure AT&T knew where the Debian diff was kept. Extra restrictions like this more or less come under DFSG 7, or at least *some* bit of the DFSG (http://www.debian.org/social_contract). Certainly nothing else in Debian main has anything like them. As far as I can see, it isn't "Open Source", and I'm not entirely surprised the Open Source Definition people haven't got back to them about it. I think there was a debate about this on debian-legal a few months back. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
