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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package</H1>
    <B>Dick Gevers</B> 
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    <I>Fri Mar 18 03:23:34 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:00:24 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote about Re:
[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package:

&gt;<i>No, I think you misinterpret this :
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>&quot;The author (Panagiotis Tsirigotis) grants permission to use, copy,
</I>&gt;<i>and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose 
</I>&gt;<i>and without fee, ...&quot;
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>That's the granted permission that is offered by the author without fee.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>Ie, _I_, as a user or coder, do not pay anything to have the right to
</I>&gt;<i>distribute, use, copy the software and documentation for any purpose. 
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</I>&gt;<i>Moreover &quot;any purpose&quot; seems to me rather clear, and for me, that also
</I>&gt;<i>mean also &quot;sell it&quot;.  
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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
&quot;selling&quot; (giving it in exchange for value) is exactly the opposite.

In other words, &quot;selling&quot; in this context can also be destribed as:
&quot;distributing for a fee&quot;.

The meaning of &quot;purpose&quot; 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 &quot;purpose&quot;
would shift to the buyer - against a fee.

That's my 2 c.

Ciao,
=Dick Gevers=
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