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Re: GPL violates DFSG point 3




On 06/01/2006 12:44:41 AM, Ben Finney wrote:

A useful summary of the position of debian-legal on this point is
here:

    <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/02/msg00290.html>

Thank you.

Perhaps someday a footnote to DFSG might be added,
or maybe some parentheis....

3. Derived Works

The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software. (Excepting, for legal reasons, the text of the
work's license(s).)

To get all contractual about it.  :-)

Regards,

Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein



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