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Russ McManus writes: > "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes: > > > I don't know what it would mean to meet the "Free Software > > Foundations", but the OSD (http://www.opensource.org/osd.html) makes > > it very clear that if you restrict type of use in any way you aren't > > open source. > > Thanks for the link. > > My point with regards to the FSF is that the FSF has been OK with > using software that is not under the GPL, but is instead under another > free license, like the X Window System license. The X Window license is open source, so it is acceptable. > The reason I think that the scsh license would be OK is that it allows > non-commericial use of the software with no strings, and commercial > use, given notification to the authors. That is not open source, so it is not acceptable. Perry