Can the following license be used for ported programs?
David Southwell
david at vizion2000.net
Mon Sep 24 00:20:32 PDT 2007
On Sunday 23 September 2007 15:43:12 Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:10:53PM +0000, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> > My company develops software under a commercial "open source" (see
> > links for details) and I want to know if my license is close enough to
> > open source (see links for why it is not 100% OSD compliant [it is 95%
> > compliant]). Specifically does the business model as outlined in my
> > blog (the third installment should be out later today), my business
> > model page, the third party certifier and license allow for inclusion
> > in the ports collection. Keep in mind that the source is available
> > to anyone but execution is conditioned on attachment A of the license
> > and after the trial period (30 days) is paid for software.
> >
> > License: http://www.flosoft-systems.com/license.php
> > Official statement of my business model:
> > http://www.flosoft-systems.com/bmodel.php
> > Blog entries:
> > http://www.flosoft-systems.com/blogs/aryeh/FOSS.php
> > http://www.flosoft-systems.com/blogs/aryeh/SIW_Background.php
> > Third party group (due to DNS issues is currently hosted on my domain
> > but is not officially associated with my company):
> > http://www.flosoft-systems.com/miai/
>
> For inclusion in the ports tree it really does not matter much what license
> you use for your software - it could even be a commercial closed-source
> program. The reason for this is that the ports tree is just a framework
> for installing and managing software packages, and none of your code will
> actually live in the ports tree.
>
> If you have various restrictions in the license then it may not be possible
> for the FreeBSD project to distribute binary packages or source files.
> If that is the case the port creator should set RESTRICTED or other
> appropriate variable in the port Makefile to enforce this (see
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-r
>estrictions.html for what variations are possible.)
Frankly I do not see the point. New software would have to be highly original
not to have its objects fulfilled by a pure open source prokject rather than
some contrived license. First look at the competitive merits of the software
against works available -- not at the liocensing!!
David
David
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