Limiting the use of an OpenSource application

David Johnson david at usermode.org
Sat Mar 2 03:15:50 UTC 2002


On Friday 01 March 2002 12:42 pm, John Richter wrote:
> If I add these caviats, can my code still be called Open Source? Does
> anyone have any suggestions about the most effective way to word such
> caviats? Is it even legal to restrict the use of software in this way?

Nope, wouldn't be open source. No way no how. You start telling the user how 
or where they run your code and and it will never qualify.

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