From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 17:25:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB57816A4CF for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:25:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from out003.verizon.net (out003pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C94543D41 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:25:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.129.47]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040125012503.YBND24306.out003.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:25:03 -0600 Message-ID: <40131AEA.2000804@mac.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:24:58 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Schilling References: <20040124214735.GE548@foghorn.rsmba.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040124214735.GE548@foghorn.rsmba.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [68.161.129.47] at Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:25:03 -0600 cc: wine-devel@winehq.com cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Open Source License: Single Supplier Open Source License X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 01:25:06 -0000 Richard Schilling wrote: > I would like to present to you all a new Open Source software license I've written up. [ ... ] One the face of it, Section III, "Distribution Restrictions and Obligations." of your license fails to comply with OSD #1 & 2: "1. Free Redistribution The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale. 2. Source Code The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form...." See http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php. -- -Chuck