Re: Final Draft: Interpretive Guideline regarding DFSG clause 3
Scripsit Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:27:53PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > I think your Final Draft does a really good job of defining a class
> > of Cases That Are Unarguably In The Clear.
> I think it does more than that.
Probably.
> > My uneasiness is with what we to with cases outside of this class.
> > Your proposal does not say anything about what happens there, and
> > seems thereby to imply that "they should be automatically rejected".
> It implies that accepting them would not be consistent with past
> practice.
What about the past practise of including the Emacs manual in main?
> "In any event, my proposal does not forbid the grandfathering of any
> particular package in main.
Let me just concur with Thomas Bushnell's latest comment to this.
Now the oracle answers:
> 1) Are there any grounds upon which a person could reasonably consider
> the license on the GNU Emacs Manual as non-DFSG-free?
Yes.
> 2) Is personal dislike for the license on the GNU Emacs Manual the only
> reason someone might consider it non-DFSG-free?
"Personal dislike" is a very fuzzy term which may cover a multitude of
sins. I don't think it can be a *reason* for something failing the
DFSG, however. Some feature of a license can simultaneously be the
cause of dislike and DFSG-nonfreedom, of course.
> 3) Do you feel the Free Software Foundation deserves selective exemption
> from the DFSG?
No. Some of the software they produce may deserve it, though,
independently of its being produced by the FSF.
> 4) Is it possible for a work to be neither, or both, DFSG-free and
> DFSG-unfree at the same time and in the same respect? If so, how?
Sure, in the same way a dog can have yet not have the Buddha nature.
Or perhaps not. You must look within your own soul for that one.
--
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muligt. Jeg siger jer det her er ikke bare stort. Det er
Stortstortstort. Det er allerhelvedes stort. Det er historiEN."
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