Re: Request for GR: clarifying the license text licensing / freeness issue

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <lrnatwork@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:44:30 +0200, Ben Finney  
<bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> I'm curious to know how you reconcile Social Contract §1 and DFSG §3,
> and the fact that we distribute non-modifiable texts in Debian.

Easy. DFSG §3 talks about the software, and a license is not software -  
neither source not
binary. The "S" in DFSG is "software". As long as the *software* is free,  
the license need not
be.

/L :)
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