[Fedora-packaging] License Review

[Rex Dieter]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:22 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>>>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.
>>
>>Yep.  This one is a deal-breaker for inclusion in Fedora. 
> 
> 
> Ok, they were afraid of that, but knew it was a possibility.  However
> they really want to prevent incorporation of the framework into a
> commercial product. 

That's unfortunate.  It's #1 on the opensource criteria on opensource.org:

http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
1.  Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the 
software...

-- Rex