On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 09:54:34AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > According to Joey the offending section is: > > 4. If you distribute copies of SNNS you may not charge anything > except the cost for the media and a fair estimate of the costs of > computer time or network time directly attributable to the > copying.
And he is right! > In my understanding this doesn't say anything about charging for > derived work not even about charging for installation nor charging for > anything bundled with SNNS on the same media, but I am no US lawyer. So what? Free means also I can take SNNS, burn it on the CD and sell it for 1000$. The above snippet prevents this. Anyway, even if this were not the case, it *does* infect everything you sell along SNNS. "if you distribute ...SNNS... you may not charge anything except" This is as non-free as many other licenses of this sort. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
