angband license

Michael Thomas wart at kobold.org
Mon Feb 27 18:49:59 UTC 2006


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Wart wrote:
> 
>> While I was packaging angband, I came across this questionable license
>> text.  Before I spend too much time with this, I wanted to verify that
>> the first paragraph is valid.  In particular, it says that the software
>> can be copied and distributed for non-for-profit purposes, that is, not
>> for commercial purposes.  Does this disqualify it as an OSI-compatible
>> license?
>>
>>  
>>
> Yes it does.  It is not a OSI compatible since the OSI definition, claus
> 6 disallows a OSI license to discriminate against fields of endeavor.
> Refer to http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php for more details.

Thanks for the clarification.  I'll try to get it into livna instead.

--Wart

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