On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 19:41 -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote: > Ken Arromdee <arromdee@rahul.net> writes: > > > By the way, where are the "dissident test" (or for that matter, the > > "desert island test") described? They don't seem to be in the > > definition of the DFSG on debian.org, a search on debian.org for > > "dissident" brings up no results, and it's not clear that an outside > > person who looks at a summary would know what they mean. > > Tests like the dissident test and the dessert island test are sort of > unofficial (or maybe semi-official) rules of thumb for deciding whether > restrictions (generally but not necessarily on modification) are > meaningful or not. The idea is that you imagine a particular scenario, > and try to decide if the individual in the scenario can freely use the > software. Take a look at section 8 of: > > http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html Thank you, Jeremy! The FAQ is really good reading. :)
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