> I think Debian (and OSI) needs to decide whether or not this is a
> philosophy they reject, and thus patch the hole in the DFSG/OSD. Or,
> ignore it until it becomes an actual issue. It was this kind of
> ambiguity, as well as a lack of general public interest in seeing problems
> in the OSD/DFSG, that contributed to my resignation from OSI.
There's no hole, and this issue is really very simple:
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow
them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the
original software.
-- DFSG
There are no "but"s in that clause.
DFSG explicitly wants the ability of breaking any standard. Imagine a file
in Apache saying: "This code may be used only for implementing the RFC
2616"...
