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Re: Suggestions of David Nusinow, was: RPSL and DFSG-compliance - choice of venue



Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:16:06PM -0700, ivan-debian@420.am wrote:
>> The debian-legal mailing list is often "bashed" because it repreresents
>> an extreme point of view relative to Debian proper.
> 
> Being interested in licensing issues is "extreme"? That's quite a
> strange thing to claim.

The proportion of the population of debian-legal who believe that the
patch clause exemption in DFSG 4 is a grave mistake or that the GPL is
only free because of DFSG 10 seems greater than in the developer
population at large. That seems like a reasonable approximation of
"extreme".

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org



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