Re: Anton's amendment
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- Subject: Re: Anton's amendment
- From: Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
- Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 22:52:32 -0700
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- In-reply-to: <20060206003138.GQ9046@taz.net.au> (Craig Sanders's message of "Mon, 6 Feb 2006 11:31:38 +1100")
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 11:31:38 +1100, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> said:
[...]
> i challenge any of you zealots to come up with a REAL WORLD, PRACTICAL
> proof that the GFDL is non-free (and i mean actually non-free, not
> merely inconvenient. the DFSG does not require convenience, only
> freedom).
I don't really understand what you mean by a real world, practical
proof. The way that Debian evaluates licenses as being non-free is if
they have restrictions that run counter to the DFSG. If it is possible
that a situation can arise where a license restricts someone from doing
things that the DFSG says that he/she should be allowed to do, then that
license should, IMHO, be considered non-free.
But perhaps I'm just misunderstanding what you mean by "proof". As a
mathematician, no proofs to me are real world, nor practical.
BTW, can non-zealots offer proofs as well, or is this challenge only
open to zealots?
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