It's not a free software license because of this one. 4. Initial Developer as Maintainer of Source Code The Initial Developer will be acting as the maintainer of the Source Code. You must notify the Initial Developer of any modification which You create or to which You contribute, except for internal development and practice, via an electronic mail message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Initial Developer may provide an Electronic Distribution mechnism for the Modification to be made available.
This goes against the Freedom 3 of the FSF's free software defination, and the 3rd clause of the Debian Free software Guidelines. -Wei Mingzhi --- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > [Please CC me, I am not subscribed to -legal] > > I am considering filing an ITP and automated build > server called > Anthill. They have a free and non-free version. > The free version is > licensed [0] under a license that looks quasi-BSD > with annoying > advertising clause. That does not worry me so much > as the last > paragraph of the license, which is a jurisdiction > clause specifying > Cuyahoga County, Ohia as the venue. > > Would this software be able to go into main or > contrib (not sure which > yet, since it is Java and I don't know if it build > with free Java > tools)? > > -Roberto > > [0] > http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/License_UPL.txt > > -- > Roberto C. Sanchez > http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr > ___________________________________________________________ 雅虎免费G邮箱-中国最强免费防毒反垃圾超大邮箱 http://cn.mail.yahoo.com/?id=77072 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]