There have been several packages allowed into main with a license like this. Some people don't like it however. Perl's license is even slightly more restricive. Except that now it can be licensed under the GPL as well.
From: John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 29 Jan 1999 12:44:51 -0700 In-Reply-To: Masato Taruishi's message of "Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:21:22 +0900" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Masato Taruishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 29 Jan 1999 08:48:54 -0500, > Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any > > purpose, subject to the provisions described below, without fee is > > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > That doesn't make it non-free. It's in the standard BSD license. It > > means you don't have to pay the author, not that you can't charge a fee. > > That is the wrong quotation to show this is non-free (^^; > GBDK is free for non-commercial use: > > lcc is available free for your personal research and instructional use > under the `fair use' provisions of the copyright law. You may, however, > redistribute lcc in whole or in part provided you acknowledge its > source and include this CPYRIGHT file. You may, for example, include > the distribution in a CDROM of free software, provided you charge only > for the media, or mirror the distribution files at your site. > > ---- > -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre