On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:47:28PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:17:06PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > In short, we accept "you may not sell this program alone" clauses, but > > only if they have loopholes big enough to make them completely > > ineffective in practice. > > By the way, I think this phrasing in the DFSG is no accident. It's > designed to let the Artistic License pass. The AL says "You may not > charge a fee for this Package itself" and then goes on to give > permission for including it in a larger distribution. That's not needed anymore thanks to the Clarified Artistic License. I think we should amend DFSG 1 so that it reads as Roland's (A) (or the semantic equivalent). -- G. Branden Robinson | People are equally horrified at Debian GNU/Linux | hearing the Christian religion branden@debian.org | doubted, and at seeing it http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | practiced. -- Samuel Butler
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