On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:54:54PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > > I fail to see how a useful software license could be DFSG-free > > and have a detrimental click-wrap license. Perhaps you could provide an > > example? > > Here's an example, but more to the point, where in the DFSG does it > say that a license can't require click-wrap? > > http://opensource.org/licenses/sybase.php > > 2.1(c) Whenever reasonably feasible you should include the copy of > this License in a click-wrap format, which requires affirmative > acceptance by clicking on an "I accept" button or similar > mechanism. If a click-wrap format is not included, you must include a > statement that any use (including without limitation reproduction, > modification or distribution) of the Software, and any other > affirmative act that you define, constitutes acceptance of the > License, and instructing the user not to use the Covered Code in any > manner if the user does not accept all of the terms and conditions of > the License.
This places a restriction on modification, failing DFSG #3. See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200301/msg00057.html (Unless the "reasonably feasible" or "should" parts turn this into an optional request, but that's a detail.) -- Glenn Maynard