1 May
2006
1 May
'06
8:37 p.m.
Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:22 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Without going into legal technicalities, that license clearly has the following problems:
- Commercial use restricted (2b) -- Can't be used in any commercial application or product.
Yep. This one is a deal-breaker for inclusion in Fedora.
Ok, they were afraid of that, but knew it was a possibility. However they really want to prevent incorporation of the framework into a commercial product.
That's unfortunate. It's #1 on the opensource criteria on opensource.org:
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php 1. Free Redistribution The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software...
-- Rex