On Thursday 15 September 2005 12:19, Jacobo Tarrio wrote: > El jueves, 15 de septiembre de 2005 a las 10:50:12 +0200, Sven Luther escribía: > > > LinuxSampler is licensed under the GNU GPL license with the exception > > > that COMMERCIAL USE of the souce code, libraries and applications is > > > NOT ALLOWED without prior written permission by the LinuxSampler > > > authors. If you have questions on the subject please contact us." > > > > That is indeed non-free and fails DFSG #6, the package cannot be in main, > > but could be in non-free maybe. > > Probably not, according to some interpretations (the GPL does not allow > adding restrictions. The author can distribute the work, since he/she is > the author, but noone else can distribute a work licensed in this way). > > Also, the use of the word "exception" is very sneaky :-) It is more like > an additional restriction :-)
Right, as explained in #12 h, i, j, k at: http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html [a damn good piece of interpretations] -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]