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?
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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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