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"License Must Not Be Specific to a Product"

As per the OSI:

"The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution.  If the program is extracted from that distribution and used or distributed within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the original software distribution.

Rationale

This clause forecloses yet another class of license traps."

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

 
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