Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL

[Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 05:56:55PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> I also think that this would be good to try and add to the DFSG.  I
> think it would make a position we've tacidly had here on -legal much
> more clear than it is now.

I think it derives directly from DFSG#1--certainly the spirit, even if
the letter is debated.  I think adding new guidelines that are subsets
of existing ones would set a very bad precedent, since it implies that
the DFSG is to be read literally, as a set of rules, instead of a set of
guidelines.

-- 
Glenn Maynard