On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:38:23AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > You have, and those arguments are weak. There's also disagreement here - > some people claim forced distribution breaches DFSG 1, some claim it > breaches DFSG 5. There's no consistent and coherent argument going on, > other than a sort of fuzzy "We think it's not free, and we can sort of > point at these two things and handwave and say they cover them". And, > frankly, that's not convincing. > The GPL discriminates against a slightly smaller set of dissidents. Which set? > The GPL discriminates against people on desert islands who have a > binary CD but not a source one. How? > Make the tests sufficiently silly and we can ban every single license > for discriminating against a field of endeavour. Sure, but I don't think either the dissident test or the desert island test fall into this category. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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