Open Source Business Found Parasitic, and the ADCL

[maa at liacc.up.pt]

> The only way you can make people comply with a license for using software
> is
> to ensure that they never get a legal copy of it without a valid contract
> with
> you (assuming you have no patent rights to help you).  That is contrary
> to the nature of Open Source, which assures both access to the software
> and the right to do what you want (within broad limits) to it.

I think my license overcomes this seeming incompatibility. I still fail to see 
how requiring a fee for commercial use hinders the "nature of Open Source".

--MAA

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