Re: RPSL and DFSG-compliance - choice of venue

[Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:35:35AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > My opinion is that choice of venue is a restriction, and that "fees" are just
> > one example of restrictions which "may not restrict" in DFSG#1 disallows.
> 
> DFSG #1 says : "may not restrict any party from selling or giving away".
> 
> I really don't understand how this can be covered by a choice of venue clause,
> since there is no restriction whatsoever involved, 

In order to distribute, you must agree to be bound by a choice of venue.
That's a restriction.  That doesn't mean that it's *necessarily* a
restriction that Debian needs to considers non-free, of course. but I
think "you must agree to this, this and that before you can redistribute"
is certainly a restriction.

> apart that you may be in
> trouble once you willingly violate the licence. I don't really buy the
> tentacle of evil argument, and feel that focalizing on potentially evil
> upstreams is a disservice and an insult to every reasonable-minded upstream.

Well, we disagree here; I'll forego debating it, since that's been done
already.

-- 
Glenn Maynard