Lewis Jardine wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote: > >> MJ Ray wrote: >> >>> Related, is the following licence DFSG-free: >>> >>> "I grant permission to you to do any act with my work. Please ask me to >>> link to mirrors. Please link to this site and credit the contributors. >>> No warranty offered and no liability accepted." >> >> >> >> "Please link to this site" seems non-free to me. What if you are making >> a copy in a medium which does not support links? What if the copy will >> be behind a restrictive firewall that doesn't allow access to external >> websites? What if your site goes down, or is replaced by something >> people don't want to link to? Also, if you copied the software from a >> mirror, does "this site" refer to the original or a mirror? >> >> If by "Please ask me to link to mirrors." you mean "If you want me to >> put a link to your mirror on my site, ask.", then that clause is fine, >> but really shouldn't be part of the license. It is not related to >> copying the work; it just provides information about how to get your >> mirror listed on the official site. > > Is it not the case that requests like this are Free, even though they > would not be if they were requirements? > > The only clauses in the license that are requirements (as opposed to > requests) are "I grant permission to you to do any act with my work.", > and "No warranty offered and no liability accepted.", which seem the > same in intent as two-clause BSD (which is Free).
You're right, sorry. The proposed license is DFSG-free. - Josh Triplett
