On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM +0200, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > > If I remove any given features from a BSD-licensed program, it remains > > free. > > but the same would be true for the LPPL as proposed to be rewritten by me with > the help of Jeff and others. > > I repeat the essential point is that requirement to be able to apply LPPL > would be with repect to the underlying virtual machine for which the code is > written. So by changing anything in a work licened under LPPL this feature or > rather description of the domain to which LPPL could be applied couldn't > change.
Then, reworded: you can't make arbitrary changes to the program (or its dependencies) without changing the freeness of the program. Now, a DFSG-free program only needs one DFSG-free version of all of its dependencies to be in main (and not contrib), but this is getting messy. If B depends on A, and either A or B can be modified in any way, but some modifications to A may make B non-free using that implementation, is B free? *head spinning* I'm going to go code. It takes much less thought ... -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
