On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 02:50:50AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:16:34PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> A requirement to send modifications to anybody is non-free. A request to
>> do so as in the Academic Free License is not.
> A request? It is not a request, it is an obligation, there is a 'must':
> You must make a reasonable effort under the circumstances to obtain the
> express assent of recipients.
Checking again, this section comes under "Acceptance and Termination"
"You must make a reasonable effort under the circumstances to obtain the
express assent of recipients to the terms of this License"
This does not talk about sending modifications to the original author or to
anyone else for that matter. It only tells you to make reasonable efforts
to communicate the terms of the license to recipients bound by it.
Ah, ok, I understand it now. Sorry for that, it is really an english
issue...
Any license that mandates a requirement to send all modifications to
the
original authors is clearly non-free. Academic Free License does not do
that. The other licenses you quotes appear to do this.
Ok. It is noted in the texlive review, and I think that there is some
review by legal.
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Pat