Re: RE-PROPOSED: The Dictator Test

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:57:49PM -0400, lex@cc.gatech.edu wrote:
> The Dictator Test goes well beyond DFSG.  DFSG clause 1 merely says
> that there is no fee or payment for the software.  Nothing in DFSG says
> that the license must make no requirements at all.  The Dictator
> Test is a stronger test.

The dictator test, as I read it, does not say that a licence must make no
requirements at all.  Every permission grant other than placing a work in
the Public Domain would fail if that were the case.

Would you care to base your assertion on fact and logic?

- Matt