[ale] OT - Amazon Software License - comments?

Jeff Layton laytonjb at att.net
Tue Apr 7 08:03:06 EDT 2015


Thanks everyone. My fears were confirmed - it appears to
be a restrictive license.

Thanks!

Jeff

> On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 20:17 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>> Well, that's pretty much it.  Not a license I'd use unless forced to 
>> do so for some reason, and only after ensuring that the client fully 
>> understood its terms.
>
> ... and just to make the implication explicit: I would */_not_/* any 
> software under use this license for anything */_I_/* design. There 
> isn't a system out there worth taking under that type of license; it 
> can be replaced with a GPL/BSD/MIT/Apache/WTFPL component or a new 
> component can be designed (correctly) and written from scratch.
>
>     — Mike
>
>
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