Am 02.07.2010 00:45, schrieb Russell Coker:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> wrote:
>> 3) The license contains many places which can be considered
>> discriminatory, racist or fundamentalist.
>> Apart from that... religious stuff shouldn't go into a license.
>
> http://www.ojuba.org/wiki/waqf/license
>
> The above URL has the license. I think that the concepts in the preamble are
> interesting, offering software to please Allah and denying the concept of
> "ownership" of Intellectual Property.
Which is not only non-free in Debian, we can not distribute it.
A software license is not allowed to force other users to please any "god".
I think we all agree with this point, so please don't start a religious
discussion now on this list..
> Also as we don't discriminate against fields of endeavor the "good purpose"
> part wouldn't be acceptable even if it could be clearly defined and agreed.
> If Stormfront, Al Quaeda, or Right to Life want to use Debian then as a matter
> of principle we should let them do so - but of course the members of such
> organisations think that they have a "good purpose" so it probably doesn't
> matter much.
>
ACK.
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