Re: ELM Copyright
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Juan Cespedes wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> > In Aachen Richard Stallman complained that elm is located in our main
> > distribution while it should has a non-free copyright.
>
> From /usr/doc/elm-me+/copyright:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1. You may, without additional permission from the authors,
> distribute Elm or components of Elm, with or without additions
> developed by you or by others at no charge. You may also
> distribute Elm along with any other product for sale, provided
> that the cost of the bundled package is the same regardless of
> whether Elm is included, and provided that those interested
> only in Elm must be notified that it is a product freely
> available from the Elm Development Group.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
that sounds like free software to me.
> IMHO, with thats license, `elm' cannot be sold alone.
that's not true. you can sell elm on a disk by itself as long as you're
prepared to sell a blank disk for the same price.
That's about as onerous a condition as being required to give/offer
source code if you distribute a binary.
admittedly, it's a pointless condition and the authors should probably
be encouraged to get rid of it but the software still qualifies as free.
> So, it's not free. It should be moved to non-free.
free. it should stay where it is.
craig
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