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"License Must Be
Technology-Neutral"

As per the OSI:

"No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface.

Rationale

This provision is aimed specifically at licenses which require an explicit gesture of assent in order to establish a contract between licensor and licensee.  Provisions mandating so-called "click-wrap" may conflict with important methods of software distribution such as FTP download, CD-ROM anthologies, and web mirroring; such provisions may also hinder code re-use.  Conformant licenses must allow for the possibility that (a) redistribution of the software will take place over non-Web channels that do not support click-wrapping of the download, and that (b) the covered code (or re-used portions of covered code) may run in a non-GUI environment that cannot support popup dialogues."

http://www.opensource.org/osd.html

 
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