On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:15:38AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Am Don, 2003-06-12 um 23.21 schrieb Branden Robinson: > > 5) The freedom to retain privacy in one's person, effects, and data, > > including, but not limited to, all Works in one's possession and one's > > own changes to Works written by others. > > Isn't that effectively this "lonely island test"? I know it as the "Desert Island" test, but I think we're thinking of the same thing, yes. > Since if it would be required to disclose any information, the lonely > islander would not be able to use it legally. Right. > And if I got it right, then the "lonely island test" has been applied to > all Debian software (or at least to those in doubt), so one can actually > hope that every piece of Debian software and data already confirms to > your "5th Requirement for Freedom". Well, more or less. As we've learned over the years, there are sometimes surprises lurking in very old packages that have been in Debian for a long time. Debian as a Project is far, far more careful about licenses now than we were 9+ years ago. -- G. Branden Robinson | To stay young requires unceasing Debian GNU/Linux | cultivation of the ability to branden@debian.org | unlearn old falsehoods. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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