Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > MJ Ray said on Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 10:24:26AM +0100,: > > > Personally, I'm not sure that is as much of a problem as the > > requirement to distribute unpublished mods to a central authority on > > request. I'd be interested to know whether this aspect of the tests is > > grounded in the DFSG, and see that information added to the FAQ. > > At some point of generalisation, this becomes an issue of striking a > balance between a particular user's right to keep his modifications to > himself, and right of the community as a whole to have access to free > software.
The point where this becomes that sort of issue is the point at which the individual human user/modifier is actually distributing the modifications to other people, though not necessarily to the public in general. If the user is really doing stuff privately -- just for himself! -- and happens to talk about it, he certainly shouldn't be forced to distribute it before he's ready! This is no issue at all. <snip> -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
