[dundee] Questions about a "Source Code License Agreement"

[James Le Cuirot]

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 21:13:49 +0100
Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/8/4 gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com>:
> >
> >
> > 2009/8/4 Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com>  
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have been sent a "Source Code License Agreement"  
> >
> > First of all find out the type of license it is issued under as
> > there are many types with differing conditions:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses  
> 
> In particular I read:
> 
>     There is no way we could list all the known non-free software
> licenses here; after all, every proprietary software company has its
> own.
> 
> 
> and:
> 
>     Of course, we urge you to avoid using non-free software licenses,
> and to avoid non-free software in general.
> 
> 
> but of course none of that helps.

It may be better to ask the OSI (opensource.org) because they have a
scheme for approving all the different licenses and they aren't
strongly biased towards the GPL like the FSF.

James