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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/4/2024 3:15 PM, Lucy Brown via
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 11:32
McCoy Smith
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<div>On 10/4/2024 10:10 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:<br>
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<blockquote>On 10/3/24 13:12, Lucy Brown via
License-discuss wrote: <br>
<blockquote>You may distribute this Software, with or
without fee, provided that you do not advertise the
Standard Version of this Software as a product of your
own. <br>
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We'd need to hash that out. It certainly feels hinky,
but I'm not sure whether it would be an OSD violation or
not. Generally, *requirements* to advertise anything
aside from the licensing terms are violations of OSD 8
and 10. Requirements to not advertise something? Not
sure. <br>
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That assumes that by "Standard Version" the license
means "Unmodified source code"; if it means something
else, it would depend on what. Regardless, it's not
possible to make any real judgement without seeing the
whole license. <br>
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The more common thing in licenses is a requirement to
NOT include the source organization's name on modified
versions. <br>
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<p>FWIW, Artistic-1.0 (which is OSI approved) sort of has
this concept (as may other OSI approved licenses)</p>
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You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any
distribution of this Package. You may charge any fee
you choose for support of this Package. You may not
charge a fee for this Package itself. <b
style="font-family: monospace;">However, you may
distribute this Package in aggregate with other
(possibly commercial) programs as part of a larger
(possibly commercial) software distribution provided
that you do not advertise this Package as a product
of your own.</b></span></p>
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<div dir="auto">I originally had that whole paragraph in my
license, I was told that <span
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style="font-family: monospace;">You may not charge a
fee for this Package itself. </b></span>violates OSD6.
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<p>To clarify if there is any misunderstanding, your original
license was "<i>You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any
distribution of this Software on physical media. You may charge
any fee you choose for support of this Software. You may not
charge a fee for this Software itself.</i>" I called out "You
may not charge a fee for this Software itself," which appears to
be a statement about whether one could charge a fee for exercising
the licensed rights, i.e., the rights granted in 1, 2 and 3. So it
wasn't an objection to a fee for providing a copy of the source
code, which is what the above paragraph is about, and which you
also included in the first quoted sentence, but what appeared to
be a prohibition on charging a fee for exercising the licensed
rights.</p>
<p>Pam</p>
<p>Pamela Chestek<br>
Chair, License Committee<br>
Open Source Initiative<br>
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