BSD and OSD

Nick Moffitt nick at zork.net
Thu May 25 00:47:44 UTC 2000


begin  The ASCII Floating Head of Seth David Schoen quotation:
> W . Yip writes:
> 
> > But the BSD enables a licensee to ADD restrictions to
> > redistribution, INCLUDING a requirement of payment, does it not?
> > 
> > How then is the BSD an Open Source license?
> 
> Because that would be the licensee's fault, not the copyright
> holder's fault.  The software thus encumbered would not be open
> source anymore, but other copies would continue to be.

	Indeed, one must keep in mind that one does not license the
Software, but rather a RELEASE of the Software.

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