Re: would this custom license considered DFSG-free/GPL-compatible
Am Dienstag, den 04.10.2016, 22:43 +0200 schrieb Santiago Vila:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:45:31AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 04 Oct 2016, Paul Wise wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > // 4. If anything other than configuration, indentation or
> > > > comments have been
> > > > // altered in the code, the modified code must be made
> > > > accessible to the
> > > > // original author(s).
> >
> > >
> > > This is impossible to comply with for those who do not have
> > > Internet
> > > access so I think it would fail DFSG item 5; No Discrimination
> > > Against
> > > Persons or Groups.
> >
> > ok -- playing devil's advocate (just a phrase, I am not of that
> > opinion
> > about the upstream ;)) -- nothing there states about connectivity
> > (Internet) or media (digitized, printed) how they must be made
> > accessible. Could be via mail, bottle in the ocean, ...
>
> In addition to the reply by Paul, there is also another common way to
> explain why this is not DFSG-free: It fails the "The Desert Island
> test":
>
> https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html
>
> So I guess bottles in the ocean were already considered and do not
> count as "making it accesible to the author".
>
> Thanks.
>
Beside that, it also fails the dissident test..
--
tobi
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