[Bug 449037] Review Request: afio - cpio compatible archiver

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--- Comment #15 from Bruno Cornec <bruno_cornec at hp.com>  2008-11-17 13:57:07 EDT ---
Hello,

I have had no feedback from a first mail sent to Mark the 30th of September.
I've resent a mail today hoping for an answer this time.

In the mean time, I have also got some feedback from lawyers that are the
following:

It appears that the relevant portion of the afio license is this:

    License notice 1, covering part of this software package.
    ...
    (1) It may not be sold at a profit.
    ...
    This software may be distributed with other software by a commercial
    vendor, provided that it is included at no additional charge.
    ...
    [Note: it is believed that condition 5 of the Perl "Artistic
    License" implies the intent of restriction (1) above.]

For comparison, section 5 of Artistic License 1.0:

    5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any
    distribution of this Package. You may charge any fee you
    choose for support of this Package. You may not charge a
    fee for this Package itself. However, you may distribute
    this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
    commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly
    commercial) software distribution provided that you do
    not advertise this Package as a product of your own. You
    may embed this Package's interpreter within an executable
    of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere
    form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard
    Version of the interpreter is so embedded.

There seems to be an obvious challenge: If distribution of code under the
Artistic License 1.0 is OK, then what is the characteristic
of the License for afio that takes it outside of Red Hat's policy ?

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