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Re: "Robinson, Nerode and other free beer zealots" was: A possible GFDL compromise



Fedor Zuev wrote:
> Please note, one of differences between DFSG and FSD is that
> latter does not require possiblity of arbitrary modification of
> work, but only "freedom to improve the program, and release your
> improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits".
> Therefore, according to FSD, free license may disallow a
> distribution of modification, which clearly can't be improvement, or
> restrict some ways for [useful] modification, if there obviously
> more than one way to do it.

By this logic, qmail (and other djb-ware) is free.

No one thinks this is the case, though. Or rather, I hope no one does.
Debian sure doesn't.
-- 
Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>

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