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Re: Proposal for clarification of DFSG.1



On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 21:33, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > I.e. since there's the right to sell the aggregation, there "should"
> > (DFSG wording in #8) be right to sell the program alone.
> 
> No, nothing of that kind is implied. If everybody has the right to
> sell aggregations, then DFSG#8 is met.

That's the point we clearly disagree upon.

> DFSG#8 excludes licenses that, for example, allow selling of
> aggregations only if the aggregation is Debian, or derived from Debian.

The first sentence of #8 suggests just this, but the consequence of the
second sentence of #8 is that after extraction from Debian, the program
should be sellable as simply as the whole distribution.

bye,
  Roland

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