Re: FilterProxy and DFSG-compliancy?
An excerpt from the license:
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I am quite serious about this. In case that wasn't clear, you may not
do the following things with FilterProxy:
Remove naughty words
Remove pornography
Remove "harmful ideas" in any form
Enforce access policies.
*UNLESS* you have the express knowledge and consent of the person whose
web content is being filtered. Said person must know exactly what is
being filtered. This is just so that unscrupulous individuals don't
install FilterProxy as a netnanny-type filtering system, and force their
views on others using it.
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Looks to me like this license pretty clearly goes against DFSG.
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6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a
specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from
being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
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Someone please correct me if I'm not seeing this clearly. This is unfortunate.
The author's goals are in sync with my own, and to a great extent this project,
however, loooks like this belongs in non-free.
David
Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:14:29PM +0100 wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just filed an ITP in response to an RFP for the package "FilterProxy".
> However, I might have jumped ahead too quick, since the license might be too
> restrictive.
>
> It /does/ fall under the GPL, but with modifications. This imposes two
> problems, one minor and a lesser one.
>
> The first is, that one lines is added at the top of "COPYING". That one
> line can just be added verbatim to "debian/copyright", and then provide the
> usual reference to /usr/share/common-licenses.
>
> However, what the line states is:
> "Please see the file LICENSE for a modification to the license for
> FilterProxy"
>
> I have attached LICENSE to this post - hope nobody minds, it's only 3.6kb. I
> really need some input on this - would it be against the DFSG? I wouldn't
> think so, only the long description should contain the license, and
> README.Debian should probably contain a notice. But should it go in non-free?
> Or is it totally against the DFSG?
>
> Anyway, any input is appreciated.
>
>
> Rgds
> Kenneth
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