Re: PROPOSED: the Dictator Test (was: Contractual requirements

["Joe Moore" <joemoore@iegrec.org>]

> On 2004-06-30 23:05:08 +0100 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
>> We should come up with a name for this test.  Maybe the "Autocrat
>> Test"
>> or the "Dictator Test"?  The copyright (or patent, or trademark)
>> holder
>> does not get to make up his or her own laws?

The Ideocrat Test?  Or perhaps Egocrat?

Autocrat or dictator make it sound like there's a legitimate (i.e.
government) third party imposing conditions on the software.

Also, this could classify licensors who unilaterally change the meaning of
words of phrasing in a normally-acceptable sofware license, such as
"permission to modify and distribute" != permission to distribute
modifications.
--Joe