Hi Ryan,
> Would a license which requires a user to provide information regarding
> use of the software to the author or another party upon request be a
> compliant license?
This would not be a compliant license. In Debian, this is refered to
as the "Desert Island" test, which originated in a 2002 discussion about
the license of the vim editor:
A good test case for whether a license is free (for issues like this)
is whether a disconnected group of people on a desert island could
distribute the software among themselves.
— https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/01/msg00010.html
Best wishes,
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Chris Lamb
Open Source Initiative
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.opensource.org
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