angband license

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Feb 26 06:20:23 UTC 2006


Wart wrote:

>While I was packaging angband, I came across this questionable license
>text.  Before I spend too much time with this, I wanted to verify that
>the first paragraph is valid.  In particular, it says that the software
>can be copied and distributed for non-for-profit purposes, that is, not
>for commercial purposes.  Does this disqualify it as an OSI-compatible
>license?
>
>  
>
Yes it does.  It is not a OSI compatible since the OSI definition, claus 
6 disallows a OSI license to discriminate against fields of endeavor. 
Refer to http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php for more details.

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Rahul 






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