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Re: awk imitation with guile



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