[rancid] Rancid 3.0 License Change

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Thu Sep 26 20:55:09 UTC 2013


I was just looking at some of the changes in Rancid 3.0 alpha and I saw
that this clause was added to the license:

+## 6. Parties packaging or redistributing RANCID MAY NOT distribute altered
+##    versions of the etc/rancid.types.base file nor alter how this file is
+##    handled.  The purpose of this condition is to help keep our support
+##    costs down.

This change makes Rancid non-Free and could be problematic for
distributions that package Rancid.  I know that in particular it will be a
problem for Fedora.

-- 
Jeff Ollie
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