Bittorrent license

Konstantin Ryabitsev icon at fedoraproject.org
Fri Feb 17 19:20:48 UTC 2006


Part of a recent discussion with a Debianista(R) revealed that they 
don't ship the official bittorrent client because it has the following 
restriction in the license:

6. [...] You cannot charge for, sell, accept donations or otherwise 
receive compensation for the Source Code.

Since bittorrent is written in Python, this more or less applies to 
"binary" RPMs as well. Not that anyone is packaging and selling stuff in 
Extras, but it's something to mull over.

Or is it?

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev
McGill University WSG

Mal: "Can I come in?"
Inara: "No."
Mal: "See, that's why I usually don't ask."
				--Episode #6, "Our Mrs Reynolds"




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