AW: Restrictions in license
Russell Nelson
nelson at crynwr.com
Sat Sep 24 06:13:44 UTC 2005
Joerg Friedrich writes:
> Yes, for example there would be a clause limiting the number of concurrent
> sessions on a web server.
An Open Source license cannot restrict use. You would need to form a
contract to do that, and while you can encourage the recipients of
your software to execute a contract, you cannot require them to.
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