On Monday 02 June 2003 13:16, Joey Hess wrote: > This is a new one to me. It's the license of elfutils, which is included > in rpm 4.2. > > The Open Software License > v. 1.0 >
sounds like a fairly straightforward BSD like license with a little more legal control. However .... > License Terms > > 1) Grant of Copyright License. Licensor hereby grants You a > world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, non-sublicenseable > license to do the following: > > a) to reproduce the Original Work in copies; > > b) to prepare derivative works ("Derivative Works") based upon the > Original Work; > > c) to distribute copies of the Original Work and Derivative Works > to the public, with the proviso that copies of Original Work or > Derivative Works that You distribute shall be licensed under the > Open Software License; > > d) to perform the Original Work publicly; and > > e) to display the Original Work publicly. > no where do I see the right to distribute binaries from either the original work or a derivative one. You can give me the original, you can give me your patches, you could even give me a translation but you do not seem to have the right to give me a .deb of it. Unless a binary is considered a derivative work in this license?