Re: [gentoo-dev] New license: nauty

[Thomas Kahle]

Hi,

On 02:33 Fri 22 Oct     , Hanno Böck wrote:
> > We're good to have it in MISC-FREE ourselves, as redistribution and
> > everything else is free.
>
> Erh, no. MISC-FREE is for free and open source software and is more or less
> the same as Debians free software guideline. That's the whole purpose
> of it.

I agree here, it is not MISC-FREE.

> It can go to BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE. If you wanna make a list of licenses that
> are "more or less free with restrictions" (however you define that), I'm fine
> with that, but I'd like to keep everything that's indirectly in the @FREE-set
> to be just that.

Regarding BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE, the file says:

# As proposed: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_6c950b46c50fe72ebc5e650bbf70f77c.xml
# Excerpt of the rules for this license group:
# - MUST permit redistribution in binary form.
# - MUST NOT require explicit approval (No items from @EULA)
# - MUST NOT restrict the cost of redistribution.
# - MAY require explicit inclusion of the license with
#   the distribution [1]
# - IFF there is an explicit inclusion requirement, USE=bindist
#   MUST cause a copy of the license to be installed in a file
#   location compliant with the license,

The nauty license *does* restrict the cost of redistribution.  So what
is it? An EULA?

Cheers,
Thomas


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Thomas Kahle