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Re: Our social contract with the free-software community

bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:

> 2. The license may not restrict any party from selling or giving
>    away the software, nor may it require a royalty or license fee.

This part is scaring away some people, for instance, the developer of
XSqlmenu that has been the subject of the recent Copyright thread in
debian-devel.  I see no problem with somebody saying that it cannot be
sold save for reasonable copying fees (media, labor, etc.).  This
would be solely to ensure that it remains in the free software
community, I would think....

Note that the Artistic license (clause 5) states that:

5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
Package.  You may charge any fee you choose for support of this
Package.  You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. ....

We seem to be saying that Perl and all the various modules and support
programs are NON-FREE!  EEEK!  The Artistic license prohibits charging
a fee (selling) the package; only permitting fees for copying.

This is very, very bad.  The Artistic license is a good item that has
done a lot for the free software community.  Perl is, in my opinion,
the best new language since C.

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