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Re: Why is choice of venue non-free ?



* Marco d'Itri (md@Linux.IT) [050205 11:55]:
> vorlon@debian.org wrote:

> >For this reason, Debian should reject choice of venue clauses as non-free.
> >At best, they give an underdog copyright holder a small advantage while
> >enforcing his rights, but at worst they give a hostile copyright holder a
> >large advantage while persecuting the Free Software community.

> This is an interesting opinion, but I can't see which part of the DFSG
> supports it.

The DFSG also doesn't tell us that we should not distribute too buggy
software - but we still try to avoid release such packages.


Cheers,
Andi
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