[Fedora-legal-list] perl-DBD-InterBase license

[Tom Callaway]

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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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