Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 16:01:25 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>, ache@astral.msk.su, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crypt code summary(2). Message-ID: <9506262001.AA18934@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199506261922.VAA14460@grumble.grondar.za> References: <199506261922.VAA14460@grumble.grondar.za>
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<<On Mon, 26 Jun 1995 21:22:34 +0200, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> said:
>> o RSAREF, RSAREF applications, and services based on
>> RSAREF applications may not be sold.
> Does selling a `free' operating system for the distribution costs on CDROM
> count as `selling'?
Yes.
b. The Program may not be used directly for revenue-generating
purposes. You may not:
(i) use the Program to provide services to others for which
you are compensated in any manner;
(ii) license or otherwise distribute any Application Program
in any manner that generates income to you, including
without limitation any income on account of license
fees, royalties, maintenance fees and upgrade fees; and
(iii) license or otherwise distribute any Application
Program without the express written acknowledgment of
the end user that the Program will not be used in
connection with any revenue-generating activity of the
end user.
Nothing in this paragraph prohibits you from using the
Program or any Application Program solely for internal
purposes on the premises of a business which is engaged in
revenue-generating activities.
Section (iii) is the killer.
> GNU may not be sold either. We have GNU. (Not much, and the license makes it
> a bit funny, but when you need it, you need it).
This is simply not true. Anyone is welcome to sell GNU programs, they
simply have to give away the source. Walnut Creek sells GNU programs;
see pages 33 and 34 of the Spring '95 catalog. [Unless you are in the
free software distribution business, it is hard to develop a business
plan that works with this model. Of course, that was the FSF's
intention in the first place.]
>> o You must give RSA the source code of any free RSAREF
>> application you plan to distribute or deploy within
>> your company. RSA will make these applications
>> available to the public, free of charge.
> What is the problem here? We _want_ to do this. We are going to do it anyway.
Note the way this paragraph is written. It is not sufficient to
simply make a program available so RSA can grab it; every single time
you commit a modification to any client program, you (or someone in
the US) must send it to RSADSI. The mrouted license is similar, but
we're OK because all our changes come from the developers.
>> 4. You must use the interface described in the RSAREF
>> documentation.
> For European users, this does not kill RSAEURO. It is the same interface.
The point was that this license doesn't allow arbitrary use of the
software components, as does every other piece of software in FreeBSD.
It is illegal in the US to compile a program which calls the internal
interfaces of RSAREF, regardless of whether you intend to distribute
it or not.
-GAWollman
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