On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 04:53:03PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> > > > This point should probably be clarified. The reason PHP-Nuke was > > regarded as non-DFSG-free was because the author's additional > > restriction created, in our opinion, a license that was impossible to > > satisfy. > > I thought that the reason was that the combined license is simply not > free, even if one interprets it in a self-consistent way. That may be, but I think we should be conservative in our rulings. We don't have to address the issue of whether the putative license is DFSG-free if the work in question is de facto not licensed at all. > > Debian interprets "this License" and "herein" to mean the conditions of > > the GNU GPL expressed in its text; no more and no less. > > s/Debian/Branden Robinson/ I hadn't noticed any objections to my analysis, so I assumed people were at least moderately comfortable with it. If that's not the case, please refresh my memory, or present a critique now. -- G. Branden Robinson | The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I branden@debian.org | installed Linux. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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