Re: AGPL and Debian
* Bernhard R. Link:
> * Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> [081201 13:37]:
>> * Bernhard R. Link:
>> > And you think that once there will be hundreds of such renamed projects
>> > of the same program which only have some patches that are not very
>> > usefull for most people because of having to specific solutions and no
>> > activity but some "please do not delete the project, I need the source
>> > hosted to be able to run it" the hosting providers will just let this
>> > go and not actively prune those pseudo-orphaned projects?
>>
>> Note that this becomes a non-issue if the work includes the capability
>> to distribute itself.
>
> Because no user should have the right to fit programs into smaller
> devices or even write a compiler for languages previously only interpreted?
Resource requirements have not traditionally been considered factors
in judging software freeness.
But you are right that the AGPL (and perhaps the GPL version 3 as
well) fail my personal test for DRM-ness: A feature which, once added,
cannot be legally removed, is DRM. However, I don't believe in adding
random checks to the DFSG, so this is rather pointless. 8-/
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