On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:45:38 +0000 Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit Evan Prodromou <evan@debian.org>
[...]
> > That's true. However, for a work to be DFSG-free, source code must
> > be supplied.
>
> Sure. But that doesn't mean that the *license* has to require it.
>
> For a work to be free, it is enough that we *have* source code; the
> license itself does not need to demand source code, once in actual
> fact we have it.
>
> The alternative would be that BSD-style licenses (and donations to the
> public domain) were not DFSG-free, which is clearly absurd.
Agreed entirely.
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