Review: Eiffel Forum License

[Russell Nelson]

We already told them that it wasn't a well-crafted, unambiguous
license.  They said, approximately, "Many people are already using it.
Please approve it or not as-is."  The question is "Is it open source
or not?"
-russ

David Johnson writes:
 > The license refers to the "package" several times, but it does not
 > specify that the package is source code. I can infer this easily, but
 > it might be helpful to clarify that publicly releasing modified
 > versions of the package means releasing the source code.
 > 
 > If I distribute a binary that *depends* on the package, I have to
 > release the package modifications. However, it appears that I can
 > distribute the binary of the modified package itself without releasing
 > the changes. Is this intentional, or am I misreading this?
 > 
 > What exactly does "without written agreement and without license" mean?
 > 
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