From: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Difference between Scintilla's license and ISC
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:03:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnn88z0k.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190619204909.GA14599@jurong>
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Hello Andreas,
unfortunately the discussion process for OSI approval of the HPND [1]
license was practically null :-), so I cannot find more info about that
specific "without fee" in the license
There isn't discussion on https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:HPND
also
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
> I do not get why the license can be free with the non-commercial
> clause.
At first I was also tricked to understand "without fee" to mean
non-commercial, precisely that "without fee" is related to "distribute
this software".
Reading the first sentence four times, we can also read "without fee"
related to "Permission to..." **and** "use, copy, modify and distribute"
"for any purpose", including commercial one
Anyway I agree with Bruce Dodson [1]:
«The notice has ambiguities that make it hard to recommend»
> What am I misunderstanding?
The above one is my personal interpretation of the ambiguity coming from
"without fee", anyway the fact that this license is GNU and OSI approved
(as GPL compatible one, also) is a guarantee :-)
...and is Historical! :-D
HTH! Gio'.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190620074602/http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:sss:6305:jggiiehpeekebdbmpopm
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Giovanni Biscuolo
Xelera IT Infrastructures
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-20 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-19 11:24 Difference between Scintilla's license and ISC Nicolas Goaziou
2019-06-19 13:52 ` Andreas Enge
2019-06-19 14:24 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-06-19 17:04 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-06-19 20:49 ` Andreas Enge
2019-06-20 8:03 ` Giovanni Biscuolo [this message]
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