Re: Free as in speech, but not as in beer

To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Free as in speech, but not as in beer
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 20:22:16 +0100
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20150325064615.84d41452bb3c29b7a2135214@bitmessage.ch> (Riley Baird's message of "Wed, 25 Mar 2015 06:46:15 +1100")
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* Riley Baird:

> The DD would not be allowed to package it with a 5 user limitation,
> because then the DD would be imposing a restriction on the software,
> not the upstream author.

This is not quite correct.  The user limit would just be a bug,
subject to the usual bug fixing procedures in Debian.

I'm sure we have a lot of software in Debian with similar limits,
although they are usually emerging properties of the entire
application, and cannot be patched away easily.

Reply to:

References:
- Free as in speech, but not as in beer
  - From: Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl>
- Re: Free as in speech, but not as in beer
  - From: Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net>
- Re: Free as in speech, but not as in beer
  - From: "Paul R. Tagliamonte" <paultag@gmail.com>
- Re: Free as in speech, but not as in beer
  - From: Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl>
- Re: Free as in speech, but not as in beer
  - From: Riley Baird <BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4Xix@bitmessage.ch>

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