On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:04:46PM -0700, Colin Mattson wrote: > I believe Shaya may be right here -- the DFSG does not make the same > provisions as the GNU Free Software definition does. While GNU's Free Software > definition rules that you must be able to keep modifications private, the > Debian Free Software Guidelines have no such provision in their current > incarnation. > > A cursory examination of the proposed updates to DFSG also reveals no such > provision. In the event we ever get around to fixing the bug in our vote-counting mechanism (ask the election-methods guys), and pass a GR saying that that the DFSG wasn't written by God Himself and that it's not abject heresy to modify it, I would be in support of such a modification. -- G. Branden Robinson | I suspect Linus wrote that in a Debian GNU/Linux | complicated way only to be able to branden@debian.org | have that comment in there. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Lars Wirzenius
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