[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package

Fri Mar 18 02:34:16 CET 2011

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, andre999 wrote:
+
+>
+>> The article of the FSF explicitly list this as a right for free software
+>> users http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html .
+>
+> That is a provision of unmodified GPL, and not a requirement of all open 
+> source licenses.  In fact, even the FSF admits that not all open source 
+> licenses have this provision.
+
+Read the free software definition :
+http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
+"Thus, you should be free to redistribute copies, either with or without
+modifications, either gratis or charging a fee for distribution, to
+anyone anywhere".
+
+Or read the open source definition :
+http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
+
+> The FSF page
+>  <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses>
+> lists the Xinetd license
+>  <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Xinetd_License>
+> as a free software license which is not compatible with GPL.
+>
+> Why ?  It cannot be redistributed for a fee.
+
+That's not the reason given on the fsf page :
+"It is incompatible because it places extra restrictions on
+redistribution of modified versions that contradict the redistribution
+requirements in the GPL".
+
+If you read the license you will see that there are restrictions in the
+version number that can be used in modified version. But I think the
+license allows redistribution for a fee.
+
+