ZDNet article - why attribution matters

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Nov 28 18:51:37 UTC 2006


Quoting John-Sugar (john at sugarcrm.com):

> Open source for us is a descriptor that says the source code is
> provided, is extensible, redistributable, no restrictions of use and
> is patent free, etc.                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is it OK to sell SPL 1.3-covered code and derivatives?  Your SPL FAQ 
(http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/open-source/public-license-faq.html, item
4) says no.  Which would make it a shareware licence, and contravene
OSD#6.




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