On Jun 05, 12 14:26:13 +0200, Joop Boonen wrote:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ That does not match OSI and as such is not allowed in the OBS. The problem is that you put our mirrors in a rather bad position if they are distributing OBS repos as part of their commercial offering (ok, I'm not a lawyer, just wanting to point out a possible problem we don't even want to start discussing).
There is enough great OSI compliant software around to keep OBS busy. Do you know if any OSI compatible non commercial use license exists, or is the non commercial part already cause an issue?
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