Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 17:57:57 -0400 Michael Poole wrote: >>The policy work involves the actual identification of freeness. >>DFSG-free is a (I believe strict) subset of OSI-free, and probably a >>superset of FSF-free. > > I don't think that DFSG-free is a superset of FSF-free. > For non-programs there is no doubt, IMHO, (see GFDL, verbatim-copying, > ...). > For programs, I don't know: I don't have the time now to scan the FSF > list of free program licenses and see if they include some that Debian > considers non-free. Consider this sentence from the GNU Project's Free Software Definition: > It is also acceptable for the license to require that, if you have > distributed a modified version and a previous developer asks for a > copy of it, you must send one. Any software with such a requirement would be non-DFSG-free. - Josh Triplett
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