[Fedora-legal-list] Is the Dxflib license free?

[Volker Fröhlich]

Dear Tom!

The sentence you quoted, tries to briefly explain the GPL, and obviously fails 
to do so accurately. Though they state before, the GPLv2 applies.

I'm curious: Would you regard it free if this sentence were not there?

Volker

Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2011, 16:13:17 schrieb Tom Callaway:
> On 10/17/2011 03:07 PM, Volker Fröhlich wrote:
> > The headers in the various file mention GPLv2. With all the rubble in the
> > license, around mentioning it was GPLv2, is this certainly free software?
> 
> No, this license mess is non-free. In it, it says:
> 
> "and the GPL-based source code must be made available upon request"
> 
> A free software license cannot force a user to distribute source code
> except in limited circumstances (when a corresponding binary is
> distributed, or deployed as a network service).  See the FSF's
> comments on the original nonfree Apple Public Source License:
> https://gnu.org/philosophy/historical-apsl.html
> 
> There are other areas that make this beast non-free, but this is perhaps
> the most glaring.
> 
> ~tom
> 
> ==
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