On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:41:02PM -0500, neroden@fastmail.fm wrote: > > a) They may require the preservation of certain copyright notices, > > other legal notices, and/or author attributions, > *** > Change this to "certain *accurate* copyright notices, other *accurate* legal > notices, and/or *accurate* author attributions...", and that part would be > fine. > We have in actual fact encountered false and misleading copyright notices, > other legal notices, and author attributions on occasion. It is not > reasonable or free to allow a license to require that they be retained, > although many old licenses do. ObLegalLegerdemain: a copyright notice that is inaccurate is not a copyright notice at all, it is merely a lying statement. One cannot give notice of a copyright that does not exist, therefore anything which purports to is not a copyright notice and can be removed. >:) > > d) They may require that the work contain functioning facilities that > > allow users to immediately obtain copies of its Complete Corresponding > > Source Code. > *** > Although this may be a Free requirement -- and I believe it should be > considered Free -- it poses *major* practical problems for Debian. For > Debian, I see only one real way of satisfying this: packaging a copy of the > entire source package into the .deb. Yuck. Anything else requires the user > to have Internet access or a local archive copy, which we can't guarantee. > I think we would need the copyright holders of any software with this > requirement to grant a specified exemption to it for Debian, before we could > allow such a program into Debian. > This is sufficiently burdensome that I have to wonder whether they really > meant to allow it, or whether it's a misdrafting. Yeah, I simply don't consider it free for Debian's purposes. I'm glad they made it optional in the way they did. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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