Re: Is the Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL-UK-3.0) DFSG-free ?
>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
Charles> For instance, let's imaging there is a table with the UK
Charles> population from 1500 to 2000, it may be not permitted to
Charles> change the number for the year 1800 to 3,000,000,000.
Charles> Which one can argue users do not need to do, but again
Charles> would not be compatible with the DFSG.
Charles> Am I worrying too much?
I don't think you need to imagine that.
Either the work you want to include in Debian has such a table or it
does not.
If it does not, we have no problems today.
If someone modifies the work in the future to include such a table, they
either need to relicense under a compatible license that clearly allows
modification, grant an exception, or not include their modification in
Debian.
If the work you plan to include has such a table or something that is
covered by such a database right, then yeah, this license is kind of
dubious.
Yes, this means more work for the maintainer.
But there is no need to imagine when we can think about the specifics.
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