Scripsit "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What I was saying is that licensing _only_ under the GPL violates the > spirit of the DFSG because the DFSG specifically also allows for software > licenses which are not GPL compatible to be considered free.
What you are saying is still wrong. The sprit of the DFSG is to allow software that has any DFSG-free license. "Only under the GPL" *is* a DFSG-free license, and therefore it is *not* counter to the spirit of the DFSG to licence software "only under the GPL". > Debian, and the free software community at large, is amicably divided > between those who under no circumstances want their work used in > proprietary software (and who thus favor the GPL) and those who just > want their work to be reused as widely as possible (and who thus favor > BSD-like licenses). > I obviously prefer the second group but I too would like to remain > amicable about it. Then I would suggest that you do not claim that the first group "violates the spirit of the DFSG". -- Henning Makholm "I tried whacking myself repeatedly with the cluebat. Unfortunately, it was not as effective as whacking someone else." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]