Re: The draft Position statement on the GFDL

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:16:35PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:

> > These are three non-solutions with respect to the freedom to make
> > arbitrary functional modifications to the work - which lies that the
> > very core of the DFSG.

> Given that "arbitrary functional modifications" would include illegal
> activities

It does. A license that tries to incorporate "you must follow the law"
clauses is non-free. That is a longstanding and clear consesnsus on d-l.

> I don't think that "arbitrary functional modifications" is a very accurate
> representation of what the DFSG is really trying to allow for.

I think you're badly wrong here.

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