[Fedora-packaging] License Review

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Mon May 1 18:28:47 UTC 2006


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.  They really just don't want people to sell it, even
if they contribute back.  Oh well, the 2.5 tree is usable and has an
acceptable license.

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