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Re: DFSG-freeness of any license that fixes the ASP loophole



On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:07:51 +0530 Shriramana Sharma wrote:

> Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > But anyway, I'm under the impression that it could be impossible to
> > address this "problem" without doing more harm than good.
> > Any "solution" I've seen so far is either utterly non-free, or
> > non-free in subtler ways.
> 
> How does it count to be non-free to be only required to release your 
> source code for certain kinds of uses?

Easy: as an extreme example, suppose a license requires you to disclose
the source for any (modified) version of the work that you *use* (even
privately).  This is clearly non-free, IMO.

> Anyway, you have not said
> whether  the clause I proposed would itself make a work non-DFSG-free.

I am not much interested in discussing the flaws of yet another license
that attempts to close the so-called ASP loophole...
Sorry.

There are already several discussions about this topic in the list
archives.

> 
> > Disclaimers, as usual: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP.
> 
> I presume IANADD means "I am not a Debian Developer".

Yes, it's a quite commonly used acronym on Debian mailing lists.
It's documented here:
http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/doc/acronyms.html


P.S.: Once again, please follow the code of conduct, and send public
replies to the list only, since I haven't asked to be Cc:ed or To:ed. 
Thanks.


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