Re: Freedom of Parrot (was: Artistic License 2.0)
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:49:04AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Allison Randal <allison@perl.org> writes:
> > The Artistic License 2.0 has been approved by the OSI, but not
> > explicitly reviewed by debian-legal. Would you like to review it?
> Debian considers the freedom of works, not license texts in isolation.
Please stop saying this. To the extent that it is true, it's also not
relevant.
Debian *does* consider the freedom of licenses. The only limitation is that
there are licenses that can be either free or non-free based on how they're
applied, but that does not preclude examining a license (which is in fact
what we do here) and classifying it as, e.g., "free", "free when applied
sanely", "free only when this option is used", or "non-free".
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