Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Jacobo Tarrio <jtarrio@trasno.net> wrote:
> > Tests are only for testing, not for stretching as much as we can: "but he
> >can just ignore the license. If he's a dissident it's not like he's not
> >breaking any law". Oh, yes, but that's what the dissident test was made for.
> 
> The problem is that it's not clear what the dissident test was made for.

I think one purpose is to clarify the kinds of uses that DFSG #6
covers.  If you can't even use it in those kinds of situations, then
you don't have a free license.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu