On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 05:19:03AM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 02:26:50PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a > wrote: > <snip> > > 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the > > Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you > > duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated > > disclaimers. > > The give away here may be problematic, however see below: > > 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this > > Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package. > > YOU MAY NOT CHARGE A FEE FOR THIS PACKAGE ITSELF. However, you may > > distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly commercial) > > programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software distribution > > provided that YOU DO NOT ADVERTISE this package as a product of your > > own. > > This is decidedly not DFSG free, it can go in non-free but it can't go > in main.
This is all just straight out of the Artistic License. DFSG 1 only says that you can't prohibit selling software as a component of a distribution, not that you can't prohibit charging for the package itself. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
