On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 01:38:26AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > If this is agreed upon by everyone - then it makes sense to talk > > about the choice of venue versus choise of law thing. > > Provided that libcwd WILL be included in Debian, I am willing to > > change the wording of the last sentence into one that only states > > a choice of law, not venue. But then it must be very clear that > > that is enough for making the license pass DFSG as such a change > > would be irrevocable. > > Well, we went over it very carefully, and those two were the only problem > issues we saw. I would be willing to say that that was enough, though I > obviously can't speak for everyone, let alone future generations of > debian-legal.
Particularly considering that many of us would like to see the patch exception removed from the DFSG. That may never happen; but it may. (Seriously. Patch clauses are a deliberate and onerous impediment to code reuse. They belong in Debian almost as little as invariant sections. I personally consider this by far the most serious problem in the DFSG.) -- Glenn Maynard
