Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Wart wrote: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.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?
Indeed it does. This subject actually comes up quite frequent and it seems relevant in the non-free FE repo discussion we had on the -devel list.
Now I'm no fan of non-free software, but IMHO opinion I think it is fair if people give something away for free including source et all that they disallow commercial use.
So I would like to propose creating a not for commercial use repo under the fedora umbrella. I know some people are afraid that this will cause pollution of the really free parts, so this repo would have to follow the following rules:
-not enabled in default FC repo config -may not be used by FE packages to depend on, IOW any package depending on a package in non-commercial automaticly must itself be in non-commercial. -for the allowed non-commercial use it should be 100% free, so derative works, redistributing (modfied) versions and (modified) source should all be allowed. And maybe:-the license should explicitly state, that a license for commercial use can be had by contacting (and paying) the copyright holder.
Regards, Hans