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Re: How about a new section "[partially free]"?



On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 06:55:52PM +0100, Bernd Warken wrote:
> That's absolutely true.  Public domain is very dangerous.  During the
> 1970s, Unix was public domain.

That is false.

> So a copyright is necessary to have a legal protection.  Otherwise, the
> wolves and pigs will eat your free packages, and even request a million
> dollars fee for it.
> 
> The DFSG in its actual interpretation is suicide.  Debian must revise
> it to survive and to stay free.

I don't see much here aside from hyperbole.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     "Why do we have to hide from the
Debian GNU/Linux                   |      police, Daddy?"
branden@debian.org                 |     "Because we use vi, son.  They use
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |      emacs."

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