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Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?



On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:06:48 -0700 Don Armstrong wrote:

[...]
> If you as an author do not want to distribute the source (or more
> importantly, require others who modify your source to do so) then you
> should pick a license like MIT or expat.

Wait, wait!
If someone releases a work under the Expat license *without* providing
its source, the work is *not* Free Software, as it lacks source!

Hence, I would say:

If you as an author do not want to require others (who modify and/or
redistribute your work) to distribute source, then you should pick a
non-copyleft license, such as the Expat/MIT license.
You should distribute the source for your work anyway, *if* you want the
work to be Free Software.


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