Is license dennying redstribution open source?

[Philip Hunt]

On 12/17/07, petr.pisar at atlas.cz <petr.pisar at atlas.cz> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a little weird question: Does OSI's open source definition require
> permission to redistribute software?
>
> Let's say I have a license that allows anything except redistribution (and
> sublicensing) of the software (in any form, binary or source code, in original
> untouched form or modfied version, the whole one or only a part) to third
> party. Let's suppose the licenesee get source code from licesensor.
>
> Thus the licensee can do whatever he wants but he can't provide the sofware to
> anybody else. Therefore software can only be "shared" between the orginial
> author and first level customer.

Then clearly it is not Open Source software, because the OSD requires
that the licensee be allowed to redistribute the software.

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Philip Hunt, cabalamat at googlemail.com