On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 17:57:57 -0400 Michael Poole wrote:
> The policy work involves the actual identification of freeness.
> DFSG-free is a (I believe strict) subset of OSI-free, and probably a
> superset of FSF-free.
I don't think that DFSG-free is a superset of FSF-free.
For non-programs there is no doubt, IMHO, (see GFDL, verbatim-copying,
...).
For programs, I don't know: I don't have the time now to scan the FSF
list of free program licenses and see if they include some that Debian
considers non-free.
[...]
> I see both the infrastructure and policy issues as being significant
> reasons to *not* identify packages as "FSF Free" or "OSI Free" or
> anything except "DFSG Free" (as in main vs non-free).
I agree: it would be too complicated.
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