Well lwn.net says "The GPL is a license, not a contract", and that distinction makes a difference[1]. The same applies to the BSD license. But whatever... Good

Well lwn.net says "The GPL is a license, not a contract", and that distinction makes a difference[1]. The same applies to the BSD license. But whatever... Good luck. It's not like these things are the result of decades of lawyers scrutinizing every word. Oh, regarding your other objection, i. e. the two requirements actually not applying to use but only redistribution, that is just a bit of convoluted logic to make the text shorter. Logically, it's: if (USING || REDISTRIBUTING || REDISTRIBUTING_BINARY) { ALLOWED = GO_AHEAD if(REDISTRIBUTING && !CONDITION_1) { ALLOWED = NOPE } if(REDISTRIBUTING_BINARY && !CONDITION_1) { ALLOWED = NOPE } } 1: http://lwn.net/Articles/61292/ http://lwn.net/Articles/61292/