Re: Desert island test
* Sean Kellogg <skellogg@gmail.com> [080228 20:01]:
> On Thursday 28 February 2008 10:19:26 am Walter Landry wrote:
> > You just have not been around long enough ;) The desert island test
> > was first mentioned in 2002 in
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/01/msg00010.html
>
> An actual cite to the DFSG, but it is from before my time... of course, there
> is no explanation of how a "licenses in which any changes must be sent to
> some specific place" violates:
>
> 1. Free redistribution.
> 2. Inclusion of source code.
> 3. Allowing for modifications and derived works.
The desert island test and the dissident test are just simple examples
why "you may modify provided that you publish" is something very
different from "you may modify".
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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