Re: ELM Copyright
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
> > Note the words "reasonable copying fee", and "You may not charge a fee
> > for this Package itself". I consider this language equivalent to that
> > in the Elm license. If you reject Elm then you must also reject the
> > Artistic License, for the same reason.
>
> I don't think licenses that allow for a "reasonable copying fee" really
> jeopardize the goals of the DFSG.
>
> We're never going to violate such a license in reality -- it is extremely
> unlikely, if not impossible, that anybody is going to be selling the Debian
> distribution for more than a "reasonable copying fee", which is a pretty
> vague term.
Quoting now from the Artistic licence on "reasonable copying fee". Note
the final sentence.
"Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the
basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved,
and so on. (You will not be required to justify it to the
Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large
as a market that must bear the fee.)
- --
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Scott K. Ellis | look for anything behind phenomena.
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