On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:51:31 +0200 Olive wrote: [...] > What make sense is what Debian considers free and as long as > the decision is taken according to rules we can say that Debian > considers it free. *As long as the decision is taken according to rules*... What do you mean? As long as the decision is taken by people entitled to take that decision? If you mean this, well, I have to say, again, that this is like claiming that the Debian Project always automatically abides by its SC, whatever it does. > We can disagree in the sense that we would like > Debian have made another decision. And we can also disagree in the sense that we think a decision is breaking the SC. [...] > Now to understand the motivations for CC-v3.0 accepted as free is not > really difficult as these motivations have also be posted to this > list; briefly that it is in spirit the same as GPL. My guess is that > the ftp masters have the same opinion. But stop do not tell me that > you do not agree; I know it. But I think it should be possible to > understand a motivation even if we do not share it. Well, I made a detailed analysis of the issues I see in CC-by(-sa)-v3.0 licenses. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00124.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/03/msg00105.html Just saying that they are "in spirit the same as GPL" is *not* a convincing rebuttal of my arguments, sorry. Other replies seen on this list are not convincing rebuttals either. Explicit disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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