[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package

Fri Mar 18 03:23:34 CET 2011

On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:00:24 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote about Re:
+[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package:
+
+>No, I think you misinterpret this :
+>
+>"The author (Panagiotis Tsirigotis) grants permission to use, copy,
+>and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose 
+>and without fee, ..."
+>
+>That's the granted permission that is offered by the author without fee.
+>
+>Ie, _I_, as a user or coder, do not pay anything to have the right to
+>distribute, use, copy the software and documentation for any purpose. 
+>
+>Moreover "any purpose" seems to me rather clear, and for me, that also
+>mean also "sell it".  
+
+
+I know zero about licensing, but I dare to say I understand the English
+language reasonably well and I claim - with all respect - that this
+interpretation is wrong, because:
+
+The quote says you have permission ... to distribute ... without fee, so
+"selling" (giving it in exchange for value) is exactly the opposite.
+
+In other words, "selling" in this context can also be destribed as:
+"distributing for a fee".
+
+The meaning of "purpose" in your quote means 'what the recipient is going to
+do with it while (s)he has it', for example:
+ 
+* look at it
+* frame it
+* store it for reference
+* put it to work in a machine
+* copy it for future redistribution
+* burn it
+* bury it
+* show its content within a wiki
+
+etcetera. This does not include selling: by the act of selling the "purpose"
+would shift to the buyer - against a fee.
+
+That's my 2 c.
+
+Ciao,
+=Dick Gevers=
+