Re: Change in ispell's copyright -> nonfree?
>> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
> It sounds similar to the mandatory "Powered by Zope" button that was
> kicked around by the Zope guys but ultimately rejected as non-free.
Uh? The text says that if I offer ispell for download (or other form
of distribution) I must place a link to the original website. In
simpler words, if the Debian maintainer puts ispell on
http://people.debian.org/~jrh/ispell, he must place a link to the
original website because he is making it available as a single entity.
On the other hand, the Debian website must not. In particular, as
worded, it does not mean that http://ispell.my.org/, a hypothetical
online spell checking service, must link to the original website. The
author probably had a problem with people distributing ispell without
clearly stating it's been written by someone one.
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