Redistribution constraint

Ian Lance Taylor ian at airs.com
Thu Aug 19 18:37:54 UTC 2004


"Andrea Chiarelli" <a.chiarelli at manthys.it> writes:

> The principles we want to follow are:
> 
> 1. we want to provide the software as the result of a consulting activity
> (we don't sell the software but our work)
> 2. we want to avoid that the software be sold
> 3. who wants to make profit with the software must add something and may be
> paid just for this addition(new functionalities, training, etc.)

Sadly, these principles are not open source (principle 1 is OK, but
not numbers 2 and 3).

That does not mean that they are bad, just they are not open source.

Ian



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