Short two points:

1. I agree with your definition of 'use' in Item 6, if its not defined elsewhere. OTOH how likely is anyone to do that anyway? Some programs have 'personal' and 'commercial' versions, whereby the one is free, and the other should be paid for, but none I know of say 'no use by commercial users' (what are commercial users, anyway?) - But maybe Im wrong, and there are such things.

2. I quite disagree with your definition of 'Redistribute', why should that have anything to do with source code, and nothing to do with the actual software? Redistribute means to give to other people ('spread to other areas', says the m-w). Nowhere does the clause mention 'source', it says 'programs' and 'software'. And people *do* talk about redistributing MS software, thats what happens with OEM stuff, gets redistributed with the computers its installed on.

(I'll skip the rest, and note for the record that I havent read (the rest of) the OSD either.)

C.

In reply to Re: Licensing Revisited ... again and again. by castaway
in thread Licensing Revisited ... again and again. by Intrepid

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