Quoting Marius Amado Alves ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm only trying to add to that the requirement that a part of any > generated revenue is payed to the authors (if they want).
Hmm. Remember, the primary conceptual concerns of the OSD are the long-term freedoms of developers and users. OSD #2 says, among other things: 2. Source Code [...] Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost -- preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge. Requiring royalties for particular _uses_ of the software after lawful aquisition is probably not even possible legally, let alone compliant with the spirit of the OSD: In the USA, at least, people have the right to execute code they've acquired lawfully, by statute -- or such is my recollection from an Eben Moglen piece at the time of SCO Group's initial legal filing. This might be one of the reasons why the OSD text never quite gets around to saying that recipients must have the right to use code for any purpose without original-developer strings attached: It's assumed. (Hi, Bruce. Maybe you as the OSD's original author can comment.) -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
