Re: OSD && DFSG - different purposes
Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes:
> Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> writes:
>
> > Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes:
> > > You are ignoring the *substance* of DFSG and focusing on its literal
> > > wording.
> >
> > You have no argument why the literal meaning differs from the
> > substance of #3. You can't, because it doesn't. Go read the
> > rationale for #3.
>
> The *substance* of #3 is to preserve the right to make changes such as
> suit the *changer*.
Please don't change the subject and then claim victory. The subject
at hand is whether the RPSL violates #3 because modifiers have to
publish, but mere redistributors don't. The substance of that part of
#3 is that a recipient gets to redistribute on the same terms as she
received the software.
> > I know, and you can't point to anything in the DFSG that prohibits
> Because debian-legal-free is a particular reading of the DFSG.
How do you read something that doesn't exist? I think it's more
accurate to say that debian-legal-free is a peculiar reading of the
DFSG.
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