Is license dennying redstribution open source?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Eugene Wee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I thought that part was obvious:
> 
> 1. Free Redistribution
> 
> The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the
> software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing
> programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a
> royalty or other fee for such sale.
> 
> 
> Clearly, "you cannot provide the software to anybody else!" contradicts
> "this does not restrict any party from selling or giving away the
> software (etc)".

Technically, it can forbid redistributing the licensed software /alone/.
 But this isn't a real issue, since you can always add a hello world
program, then redistribute.  No major license requires this, though.

Matt Flaschen