Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure
Scripsit "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org>
> What I was saying is that licensing _only_ under the GPL violates the
> spirit of the DFSG because the DFSG specifically also allows for software
> licenses which are not GPL compatible to be considered free.
What you are saying is still wrong.
The sprit of the DFSG is to allow software that has any DFSG-free
license. "Only under the GPL" *is* a DFSG-free license, and therefore
it is *not* counter to the spirit of the DFSG to licence software
"only under the GPL".
> Debian, and the free software community at large, is amicably divided
> between those who under no circumstances want their work used in
> proprietary software (and who thus favor the GPL) and those who just
> want their work to be reused as widely as possible (and who thus favor
> BSD-like licenses).
> I obviously prefer the second group but I too would like to remain
> amicable about it.
Then I would suggest that you do not claim that the first group
"violates the spirit of the DFSG".
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