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

Petr Šabata contyk at redhat.com
Wed Apr 17 15:55:12 UTC 2013


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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