Re: definitions of free
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 07:57, Michael Poole wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness writes:
>
> > Assumption: There will forever be different definitions of free.
> >
> > Question: what would it take to provide to the user the option to choose
> > "FSF Free" as well as "DFSG Free" (and perhaps "OSI") as the set of
> > packages they wish to install?
> The infrastructure support would be adding headers to all packages to
> identify their type(s) of freeness, and updating tools to support
> that.
Perhaps just a license field - but the infrastructure does seem
non-trivial.
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