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Re: Proposal for clarification of DFSG.1



On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:24, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> You are missing the phrase "otherwise within the terms of the
> program's license".

No. (Besides, it's kind of redundant, because on distribution without
Debian, the original package's license applies automatically.)

Just take the example of a license that explicitly allows the selling of
the program in an aggregation but not the program alone. After
extracting it from Debian and giving it away to someone else at no cost,
#8 requires the receiver to "have the same rights as those that are
granted in conjunction with the Debian system", i.e. selling it.

bye,
  Roland

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