Sebastian, I think you may have hit on the crux of the matter: On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 03:44:17 -0500, Sebastian Welton <sebast...@welton.de> wrote:
>This license is for personal, individual learning use only and not for test >and development of commercial products. The legal question is: is developing a program to be distributed as open source software considered the development of a commercial product? I am not a lawyer, but I've dealt with software IP legal issues for many years. "Commercial Product" is a term that is typically defined within a contract or licensing agreement and _usually_ is something like: "Commercial product means a product, such as an item, material, component, subsystem, or system sold or traded to the general public in the course of normal business operations at prices based on established catalog or market prices." A "plain reading" of the above statement (in my legally _non-authoritative_ opinion) would not preclude development of open source software, as such software is freely available; it is neither traded nor paid for. Of course, that statement is not from the Learner's licensing agreement. It would be interesting if someone could find the exact language. Scott Fagen Sirius Computer Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
