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Posted Apr 12, 2011 10:35 UTC (Tue) by jrn (subscriber, #64214)
In reply to: FreeCAD by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Professional Quality CAD on Linux with DraftSight (Linux.com)

Thank you. I had missed the phrase "on a non-exclusive basis" in section 7 which is indeed bizarre. It says that the disclaimer of warranty in section 8 cannot be waived on an exclusive basis.

Tom's comment was: "Why can't someone choose to offer support exclusively to customer A but not any other customer?" But as long as you are not guaranteeing that customer A is the only one that gets a warranty, you're okay. I don't see how this would come up in practice.

So while I see how a reasonable person or distribution might want to steer clear of this license and I wish the outcome were different so this obnoxious license could quickly fade into obscurity, I am not convinced it violates the guidelines Debian uses to determine what software is free, nor their spirit. (For what little that's worth. I am neither a lawyer nor a Debian Developer.)


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Posted Apr 12, 2011 10:39 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

I am convinced that it does and they need to relook carefully at the license. It doesn't qualify as free software.


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