Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Jonathan Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Now to the problem. Debian guideline 5 states "The >>license must not discriminate against any person or >>group of persons." >> >>The proposed LaTeX license defines the Current Maintainer. >>The license grants these person(s) privileges that are >>not granted to other licensees.
Some clarification. Every purchase is also a sale. Every more than is also a less than. Every discrimination in favour of is also a discrimination against. > We have a clear tradition on d-l that the non-discrimination guidline > only means that there must be some free terms that apply to everyone. > It is not a problem of specific groups receive *more* freedom than the > norm, as long as everyone has the freedoms described by the DFSG. I understand this to mean: provided that for the least privileged licensees the other guidelines are met, guideline 5 does not apply. > It would be absurd to consider one license less free than another solely > because it gives more rights to a specific group. In my opinion, this is precisely what guideline 5 says. More exactly, it says that a license is not free if it grants *less* rights to a person or group of persons. And every *more* than is also a *less* than. Jonathan Fine Cambridge, UK
