[clean-list] Licence Issues

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-Sep-2002, Dr Mark H Phillips <mark@austrics.com.au> wrote:
> 1. Is "half open-sourcing" code even possible?  Ie, is the LGPL
> compatible with the extra restriction "but available for
> non-commercial purposes only"?

No, not really.  The LGPL combined with this extra restriction
does not allow you to distribute modified copies of the software.
Clause 2 of the LGPL becomes entirely vacuous, since precondition 3(c)
("You must cause the whole of the work to be licensed at no charge
to all third parties under the terms of this License [the LGPL].")
cannot be met.

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