ATT SOURCE CODE AGREEMENT Version 1.2C

[bruce at perens.com]

From: Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net>
> What would prevent a license from coming with usage limitations, _and_ saying
> "you may only distribute to people who agree to abide by the usage
> limitations"?

Put the software on a Red Hat or Debian CD and sell it at retail. How do you
assure that every customer agrees to abide before you sell them the CD? Do you
require them to read the license and sign at the cash register? If they haven't
agreed, you'd have no right to sell them the software.

That's why it needs to be a tear-open license, where agreement can actually
happen _after_ the sale.

> That would essentially convert a distribution restriction into a use
> restriction:  If you don't agree to the use restriction, people have no right
> to distribute to you, so if you don't agree to the use restriction, any copies
> you get are pirated.

But the breach is the distributors, not yours. Thus, the distributor would have
to make sure you agree before performing the act of distribution.

	Thanks

	Bruce