On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Jeremy Hankins wrote: > Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> writes: > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Jeremy Hankins wrote: > Perhaps [Bruce Perens] has a turing-complete compost heap as well? Way, way, OT, but it's pretty hard not to have a compost machine that does not contain universal turing machines.[1] (Hint: Think bacteria and DNA.) > Then what are you talking about? If the section of the DFSG a > license fails doesn't capture anything, why include that datum? Just because a single section of the DFSG fails to enclose all of the problems of a license doesn't mean that a a license does not violate a section of the DFSG. Regardless, I think there's a fundamental miscommunication here. I'm suggesting the following: "This clause of the license restricts modification (DFSG §3) because ... which was found to a modification restriction in debian-legal thread (link to legal thread via lurker[2])" instead of: "This clause of the license restricts modification because ..." I'm not proposing: "Violates DFSG 3" (Even though I use this shorthand myself for licenses that are trivially non-free.) Don Armstrong 1: Yes, yes, my day job is molecular biology... 2: see http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/ -- links to it are "permanent", whereas list.debian.org links currently move about as spam is removed from the archive. -- The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the chairs, and the light and plumbing fixtures. The conspirators had deliberately punished the bank, for reasons best known to themselves, or to their unknown controllers. They had superglued doors and shattered windows, severed power and communications cables, poured stnking toxins into the wallspaces, and concreted all of the sinks and drains. In eight minutes, sixty people had ruined the building so thouroughly that it had to be condemed and later demolished. -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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