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providing:
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Translations of the license must be clearly marked as translations, and
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page on the same site, and must provide a link from the translated page
to its original.
As far as I can tell, this fails point 3 of the DFSG. If so, the web site is
in violation of the spirit if not the letter[1] of our Social Contract:
When we write new components of the Debian system, we will license them
as free software.
IIRC, I have brought this up before, and I was dismissed or ignored. I would
like to discuss this again, as it concerns me greatly, especially since text
I have written, which I want to be DFSG free (Debian Weekly News), appears
on the web site under this license.
--
see shy jo
[1] Not the letter since it is not part of debian proper. Nor can it be,
with this license.
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