[Fedora-legal-list] Yahoo Public License 1.0

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Apr 30 01:48:33 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 04:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> http://www.zimbra.com/license/yahoo_public_license_1.0.html
> 
> Is this license acceptable for Fedora?

No, because of:

 In the event Yahoo! determines that You have breached this Agreement,
 Yahoo! may terminate this Agreement.

In effect, because they can terminate the license at will, the rights
can't be depended on.

Non-free, no-go for Fedora.

~spot




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