On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:04:29PM +0000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > It looks to me like a possible case of being free but not > distributable by Debian: because anyone distributing it would have to > make people agree to the EULA, which would mean you couldn't just put > it on an ftp server or hand out CDs that contain it.
I think this effect is sufficient evidence for such a program not being free. > Perhaps I don't properly understand the intention of DFSG 7, but in my > hypothetical case anyone to whom the program is redistributed would > already have agreed to the EULA, so there is no need for execution of > an additional licence, and everyone who has the program has the same > rights. How would this be incompatible with DFSG 7? If you look at it that way, then the need to get people to agree to the EULA is a restriction on distribution, which fails DFSG 1. Richard Braakman
