Re: Choice of venue, was: GUADEC report
* Steve McIntyre (steve@einval.com) [040712 18:10]:
> There does seem to be a lot of effort being put into inventing
> extremely contrived arguments in -legal these days to make various
> licenses look non-free. At the current rate, it won't be long before
> someone invents a reason to declare the GPL license non-free.
That has already happend.
> That's
> why more and more developers are losing patience and paying no
> attention to these discussions any more.
Also, the distinction between free and non-free is broken by this. If
even acceptable restrictions are considered non-free, than DFSG-free
is no longer an helpful guide for our users and also not for ourself.
Cheers,
Andi
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