Re: Darwin Streaming Server

[Colin Mattson <colol@ionet.net>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:34:56AM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote:
> so a license that is DFSG free to everybody, just different amounts of
> DFSG free to different people is considered non-free?

Correct, and that's exactly why it's non free -- it's different amounts to
different people.

>From the DFSG at http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines :

>5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
>The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
>
>6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
>The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a
>specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from
>being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

By restricting businesses into distributing all of their changes, it's 
essentially discriminating against a group of persons.

We again see something that could be considered a violation (depending on how
anal one chooses to be about it) when it comes to fields of endeavor -- personal
use, one endeavor, is free to make changes and use them.  Everyone else in 
their respective fields of endeavor is affected in another means altogether
by the license (and thus restricting their use of the software).

-- 
Colin Mattson
colol@ionet.net