Re: [gNewSense-users] Changing the forum

[J.B. Nicholson-Owens]

James Freer wrote:
> What's wrong with their licence? I've missed something?

The Simple Machines License is non-free because it prohibits 
distributing the software for a fee (section 1c).

I don't know if the "express written consent" requirements means that 
licensees have to acquire additional permission beyond the permissions 
granted in the license.  If that's what express written consent means, 
those clauses too would make this license non-free as users would never 
be sure if they could help their community by distributing modified 
versions of the software without getting permission each time.

As for addressing the main point of this thread: I've written on my 
opinions of mailing lists and web forums earlier.