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Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL



On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:15:31PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> The "dissident test" does sound very silly the way it is described in
> the FAQ. Perhaps the FAQ should give a realistic example as well as
> the memorable but silly "dissident" example.

What's silly or unrealistic about it? The totalitarian state in
question is the People's Republic of China. The original name of this
test is the "Chinese Dissident" test.

Free software developers are almost dissidents by definition in China;
advocates of "free speech" certainly are. The conventional approach to
political dissidents in China is to have them quietly disappear.

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