Dear list,
I'm reviewing perl-DBD-InterBase [1] which uses the standard Perl license. However, it includes the following special exception:
You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file, with the exception that it cannot be placed on a CD-ROM or similar media for commercial distribution without the prior approval of the author.
Is this acceptable with or even without the author's explicit approval?
Thank you for your insight, Petr
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On 04/17/2013 08:44 AM, Petr Šabata wrote:
Dear list,
I'm reviewing perl-DBD-InterBase [1] which uses the standard Perl license. However, it includes the following special exception:
You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file, with the exception that it cannot be placed on a CD-ROM or similar media for commercial distribution without the prior approval of the author.
Is this acceptable with or even without the author's explicit approval?
Not acceptable, unless that exception clause is waived/removed.
~tom
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:17:49AM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
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On 04/17/2013 08:44 AM, Petr Šabata wrote:
Dear list,
I'm reviewing perl-DBD-InterBase [1] which uses the standard Perl license. However, it includes the following special exception:
You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file, with the exception that it cannot be placed on a CD-ROM or similar media for commercial distribution without the prior approval of the author.
Is this acceptable with or even without the author's explicit approval?
Not acceptable, unless that exception clause is waived/removed.
~tom
Thank you. P
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Tom Callaway