[Fedora-packaging] License Review

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:09:35PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Can you look over
> http://www.metasploit.com/projects/Framework/msf3/download.html?Release=alpha-r3 for The Metasploit Framework License v1.0 ?

Without going into legal technicalities, that license clearly has the
following problems:

- Commercial use restricted (2b) -- Can't be used in any commercial application or
     product.

- Anti-forking clause (4) -- Modifications must be distributed separately,
     as patches -- no forking. Technically, that's what good RPMs do anyway,
     but this doesn't meet the normal standards for Free or Open Source
     software.

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