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Re: Choice-of-Venue is OK with the DFSG.



On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:07:17AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> > i believe much as you do above, and that debian-legal has been
> > slanted much in defending the rights of the user of free software,
> > at the detriment of the upstream author.
> 
> Even though this is a tangent point, Free Software involves defending
> the rights of a user of Free Software. If the upstream author wants to
> protect and preserve their rights, they are interested in proprietary
> software, not Free Software.

Protection against users not respecting the licence and reusing GPLed code in
proprietary software for example ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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