On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 07:30:56PM -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote: > In my personal opinion, the "moral rights" idea is very disturbing. I > know it has its defenders, ...
The issue is not whether it's right or wrong. It's more fundamental than that. The DFSG were originally designed for software; if they are to be extended to apply to works that are mainly about expression rather than function, you risk bumping up against the law. Someone in, say, France, may not legally be able to grant the permissions that you are demanding. Now, the French contributor can sneak something past debian-legal by writing a license text that appears to grant permissions that the contributor has no power to grant. Is that what you want?
