DFSG claims BSD, not BSD 2/3-clause, is DFSG-free

[Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>]

Dear all,

during my ongoing NM process, I have been asked to review several
Debian documents and propose any changes I would like to see.

While, to put it bluntly, I think the Debian Constitution is written
somewhat sloppily, it's most likely not worth going through a GR to
get what amounts to janitorial work through.

Something that _can_ easily be changed (afaik) is that the DFSG[1] states that

  'The GPL, BSD, and Artistic licenses are examples of licenses that
we consider free.'

It's quite obvious that this refers to 2- and 3- clause BSD, not
4-clause BSD. Still, that's not what it says. Same as above, this is
mainly janitorial, but still valid.
As I honestly don't know where to take this, I decided to open this
can of worms here.


Thanks,
Richard


PS: If anyone's seriously interested in the barrel or container of
worms of "clean up the Debian Constitution a bit and see those changes
implemented", maybe we should do that in another thread.

PPS: Same as whitespace commits, this type or janitorial work can be
rather political or even religious. I do not intend to offend your
FSM. Promise.


[1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines