Proposal for OSI Certification: The SteelBlue License

John Cowan jcowan at reutershealth.com
Fri Sep 8 22:41:46 UTC 2000


Robert Buccigrossi wrote:

> 6.  COPYRIGHT. All right, title and interest in and to the Program,
>     including but not limited to the copyright and the right to sell,
>     transfer, license or otherwise convey the Program and any rights
>     therein, remain exclusively with TCG.

This sentence looks problematic under the Open Source Definition (and,
a fortiori, as Free Software as well).  It seems to prohibit people from
packaging the Program on a CD-ROM with other programs and selling the
CD-ROM.

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