EULA and Modifed BSD
David Woolley
forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Tue Dec 11 22:02:17 UTC 2007
Norman Young wrote:
> Thanks to all of you who replied. We ended up checking with a lawyer
> and it turns out that for the specifics of our case, some kind of EULA
> that sits on top of the New BSD is required to disclaim certain
> exceptional aspects of our software.
In that case you won't have an OSI approved licence, and it is arguable
that you won't have an open source licence, as it fairly fundamental
feature of open source licences that end users are also potential
distributors.
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