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Re: RE-PROPOSED: The Dictator Test



On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:59:22AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> 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?

(5 days later...)

Perhaps not.  :-/

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