Re: GFDL freedoms
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- Subject: Re: GFDL freedoms
- From: MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 22:16:59 +0100
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Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> In my previous example, a license only stating "you can do whatever you
> want with the licensed material but redistribute it printed on toilet
> paper" would fail the DFS "Rules", whilst i do believe it's clearly free
> enough for our purposes (and our users), and should pass "Guidelines".
I think almost all media restrictions should fail under
guidelines. Even one as "obviously harmless" as your toilet paper
example could come back to bite us on the bum if lawyers argue
successfully some commonly-used printout paper is equivalent. ;-)
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MJR/slef
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