On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 05:24:58PM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: > according to the following standard Gnu General Public License or any > later versions, with the one minor "Beverage" modification listed below. > Note that this modification is probably not legally defensible and can > be followed really pretty much according to the honor rule.
I tend to agree with this - GPL section 10: / | You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the | rights granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may not | impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights | granted under this License, \ > As to my personal preferences in beverages, red wine is great, beer is > delightful, and Coca Cola or coffee or tea or even milk acceptable to > those who for religious or personal reasons wish to avoid stressing my > liver. > > The "Beverage" Modification to the GPL > > Any user of this software shall, upon meeting the primary author(s) of > this software for the first time under the appropriate circumstances, > offer to buy him or her or them a beverage. This beverage may or may > not be alcoholic, depending on the personal ethical and moral views of > the offerer. The beverage cost need not exceed one U.S. dollar > (although it certainly may at the whim of the offerer:-) and may be > accepted or declined with no further obligation on the part of the > offerer. It is not necessary to repeat the offer after the first > meeting, but it can't hurt... If valid, this will likely be non-free. I don't think depending on that reading of section 10 is great, so perhaps it's right to move this to non-free. It'd be nice if he rephrased shall to may - it seems like he's not keen to enforce it either. That would likely make this free enough (tm), but I'd need to re-read it to be sure. Cheers, Paul [just as a DD, not ftpteam hacker] -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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