On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 02:27:13PM -0500, Paul Serice wrote: > > Can Dr. Hyatt, the original author of Crafty, restrict use of the > program such that he is the only person who can enter the original > program into a chess competition and still have a license that is Debian > free?
No. > Can Dr. Hyatt forbid any derived works from being entered into a chess > competition and still be Debian free? No. > My sense of "right" tells me that Professor Hyatt's restrictions are > fair and reasonable. Sure it is. A fair and reasonable license can still be non-free. > 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups > > "The license must not discriminate against any person or group of > persons." > > I believe this is provision is also met. First, no one to whom Crafty > is distributed can enter the program into a tournament. But the original author can. This gives the author a freedom of relevance only to himself. I say "of relevance" because I think it is relevant to section 6. > Second, this restriction is simply in place to prevent unethical persons > from defrauding the chess tournaments, and I have to believe the DFSG > allows licenses that prohibit fraud. The DFSG does not define ethic. The DFSG does not define fraud. > 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor > > "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the > program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not > restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being > used for genetic research." > > I'm just including this paragraph so I can so that it is off point. A > chess tournament is not a "field of endeavor." If someone would like to > argue that a chess tournament is a field of endeavor then I would argue > that Crafty passes muster for the same reasons it passes muster under > paragraph 5 above. I think you are completely wrong here. Indeed, I get the impression that you are arguing this way because you like to see crafty remaining in main. But your interpretation is completely unsubstantiated. First, yes, a chess contest IS a field of endeavour. Second, point 5 and 6 are quite different, and I would like to hear how you apply the reasons in 5 on this point. If using a derived work on the same chess contest is unappealing, the conditions on the contest should be changed, not the software license. A license is almost never a good moral playground (remember the "microsoft" or "south africa police" clauses). Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
