Bittorrent license
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Feb 17 19:31:00 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:20 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> Part of a recent discussion with a Debianista(R) revealed that they
> don't ship the official bittorrent client because it has the following
> restriction in the license:
>
> 6. [...] You cannot charge for, sell, accept donations or otherwise
> receive compensation for the Source Code.
>
> Since bittorrent is written in Python, this more or less applies to
> "binary" RPMs as well. Not that anyone is packaging and selling stuff in
> Extras, but it's something to mull over.
>
> Or is it?
>
The rest of the license seems to countermand this one line but to be
clear it is not an issue for -extras-list. This is for red hat legal
counsel to look at.
Curiousity - is this a recent addition to their license?
-sv
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