I have been toying with the possibility of rewriting the DFSG such that it enumerates which things a free license *can* do, rather than just give examples of things it *cannot*. I think that such a revision could get the guidelines to be much closer to the *actual* practise of how we evaluate licenses than if we simply make local adjustments to the current DFSG. The downside is that the whole truth cannot be condensed into the "ten commandments" schema of the current DFSG.
My results so far are at <http://henning.makholm.net/debian/dfsg-bis.html> Comments will be appreciated - both about the general angle of attack, and about my specific draft. I have probably forgotten about a detail here and there. -- Henning Makholm "Det nytter ikke at flygte der er henna overalt"
