[TANIGUCHI Takaki] > * "free software" satisfies > "freely usable, freely (re-)distributable > without any charge for itself, freely modifiable unless the > original author(=me)'s copyrights are infringed or neglected, > absolutely not responsible to any result from itself. "
"([R]e-)distributable without any charge for itself" implies, or may imply, that I cannot put xcite on a CD with other Debian software and sell the CD for profit. The author possibly intended that I can, but the statement is too ambiguous. The author also does not give permission to distribute modified versions. You might think this is implied ... but not necessarily. In particular this was a problem with Pine; the license looked as though perhaps we could distribute modified versions, but upstream didn't think they had said that. "[U]nless the author(=me)'s copyrights are infringed" makes the clause fairly meaningless, because the whole point of a copyright license is to grant rights that would otherwise infringe the author's copyrights. It is a bit like saying "You may steal things from stores except where prohibited by law". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
