On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:56:14PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > Should the Debian project make a stink anyway? Only if you also want to > > make a stink about the LGPL, the X license, and every non-copyleft > > license, because all permit a derivative work to add something like the > > Affero clause. > There's a wide difference. The GPLv3 is explicitly making a statement: > "these restrictions are acceptable". Permissive licenses merely say "I > don't care". It implies that the FSF considers such restrictions free, > and either hasn't considered, or doesn't care, about the legitimate > applications that it implicitly prohibits. > I don't think anybody is claiming this license exception is non-free in > and of itself (if I have, it was in error), but that doesn't make it not > damaging. But in that case, you might find it more fruitful to discuss this clause with the FSF itself rather than with debian-legal. Cheers, -- 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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