[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package

nicolas vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Fri Mar 18 01:00:35 CET 2011


On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:

> Le jeudi 17 mars 2011 à 18:24 -0400, andre999 a écrit :
> > nicolas vigier a écrit :
> 
> > > Also the "do not charge for it" would make it non free (but it does not
> > > seem to be mentioned in the "Modifications" section, only in the
> > > "Unaltered Binaries" section).
> > 
> > Why would "do not charge for it" make it non-free ?
> > That doesn't seem to be a requirement of open source.  Although charging 
> > for it is generally permitted in unmodified open source licenses.
> 
> So that mean that someone cannot ask money for selling a cdrom with it,
> since it would be charging for the software. 
> 
> That's clearly a restriction of usage. So we need to rebrand it.

It seems this restriction only applies to "Unaltered Binaries"
distribution.



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