Re: Debian FreeBSD

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu> writes:

> > We must not help software based on a BSD-licensed kernel no less
> > become more prevelant.  The reason is that the BSD license allows
> > companies to commercialize the product.  I for one disdain the idea of 
> > using SPI resources to help things that will become proprietary.
> 
> I have a different emotional stance on that but it doesn't matter.
> 
> DFSG doesn't discriminate between compliant licenses and BSD license is
> certainly DFSG-compliant. 

This is irrelevant.  DFSG was introduced solely because we needed a
way to evaluate non-GPL licenses of standard packages for inclusion in 
Debian.  As you'll note if you were to read the license itself,
circumstances forced us to allow some software to pass the test even
though we dislike it and it probably shouldn't.



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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex Y.
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