On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 05:50:18PM -0500, Nate Carlson wrote: > Reading the license, some especially annoying things: > > Sect 2.1e: > <..> Execution of the Covered Code is not restricted except that You are > prohibited from receiving a payment for, or directly or indirectly > generating revenue from, any service that uses the Covered Code to store > or retrieve data. <..> > > ^-- As I read this, if a consultant goes into a non-profit shop, and > wanted to install GFS as a file system, we wouldn't be allowed to charge > time for this installation/configuration of GFS. Alternately, the first thing that came to my mind when I read that: You can't run an online store and keep any of its data on GFS. Free/ nonfree issues aside, that's just plain _stupid_. Makes about as much sense as most of the business method/software patents I've heard about. -- With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not safe for non US software engineers to visit the United States. - Alan Cox "To prevent unauthorized reading..." - Adobe eBook reader license