On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:18:08PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Then please remove the GPL from all debian packages, and make non-free > all those that include it. Or can the GPL be modified, can it be changed > at will? No. Does it make it non-free: NO.
It's a license, and it's generally accepted that immutable licenses and warranty disclaimers are a necessary exception, since Debian isn't comprised entirely of public domain software. I believe it's perfectly clear to everyone that Mark was not referring to license texts; they're irrelevant to the discussion. > Invariant sections are non-technical opinions (see > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt.html) that reflect the author's > opinions. You cannot remove them, _but_ you can add your own (for example > to "discuss" what the original author said). Right, and I certainly don't want to see unremovable opinions in Debian (even if I happen to agree with them). Whether they're technical or not doesn't matter to me. -- Glenn Maynard
