Re: Anti-TPM clauses
Olive <olive001@tele2allin.be> writes:
> Francesco Poli wrote:
> > Firstoff, please note that *packages* are accepted in main or
> > otherwise rejected. *Packages*, not *licenses*.
>
> OK, but packages are accepted according to their license; when I say
> that Debian accept a license I mean that it accept packages under
> this license. This seems clear, is it not?
It's not, because it gives the incorrect implication that *all* works
under that license are acceptable for Debian by definition.
We must consider *all* aspects that may restrict the freedom of a
recipient of a work, of which the set of license terms is the most
significant but not always the only factor.
> I must confess you that the answer having me really angry might not
> be your. I was particularly angry by reading a message like this:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/09/msg00119.html
>
> where he seems to say that a consensus of Debian legal might have
> more value that the one expressed by the people officially entitled
> to do so.
There was no value judgement in that message. I'm sorry you found one
where it wasn't written. Here it is again:
Ben Finney wrote:
> Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> writes:
> > debian2007@macfreek.nl wrote:
> > >There seem to be consensus that as long as there is no vote on
> > >[CC by-sa 3.0], it's probably non-free, and best not put it in
> > >main. Correct?
> > Wrong. CC-BY-SA 3.0 is a free license and many works licensed this
> > way are in main.
> Note that the latter does not necessarily imply the former. Many
> packages have been in main against the advice of a consensus view on
> debian-legal that the package is non-free.
The original poster *directly asked* about the consensus view. My
response was a clarification about consensus of debian-legal, since
that was the original question.
> That really let think that debian-legal would be entitled to decide
> what is free according to Debian.
Not at all. This list is a Debian resource to allow discussion of
DFSG-freeness of works, so that decisions can hopefully be informed by
more than one opinion. It has no special power in that regard.
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Ben Finney
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