On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:49:18PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > > By this definition, procmail is non-free because it does not have any > > forms that allow a reasonable person to modify it in reasonable ways. > > The existence of two authors in the copyright statements suggests that > that's not true. Why? The existence of two unreasonable people is not unlikely. > > It is not the definition that we use. We accept procmail as free > > because it can be modified by the author, even though it's > > impenetrable to most other people. > > There's a difference between "most other people" and "no other people". > What use is the freedom to modify if nobody can make practical use of > that freedom? Sounds to me like you are trying to argue that things like procmail shouldn't be free. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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