On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 06:50:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > I'm personally concerned about this particular phrase, as it seems to > > preclude Debian from distributing software with Sun RPC in it unless > > Debian itself is developing the product or program using Sun RPC. > > Which we are, viz "The Debian Distribution". ...which means the license violates either DFSG 5, DFSG 6, or DFSG 8. If the fact that we *are* "the Debian Project" or *are* a group of "developers of products or programs" are facts that render us compliant with the license, then the license is not DFSG-free. Who you are, or what you do (apart from the copyright-protected activity of distribution of the Work-in-Itself) does not matter to a Free license. If it does, the license is not Free. If citing who we are or what we do is a defense to a claim of copyright infringement, then the license is discriminatory. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If ignorance is bliss, branden@debian.org | is omniscience hell? http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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