Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In addition, there seems to be a general consensus in Debian *against* > the Dictator Test. Nobody except me to mind that CA certificates come > with a lot of obnoxious licensing conditions (if we have a license to > distribute them at all). >
Just so you know, Florian, I hate the Dictator Test, too. Debian should be about free software, period. It should be able use, modification, and distribution of software. It should be about the presence of source code. The Dictator Test goes well beyond DFSG. DFSG clause 1 merely says that there is no fee or payment for the software. Nothing in DFSG says that the license must make no requirements at all. The Dictator Test is a stronger test. Lex PS -- doesn't the dictator test *support* dictators?? It is basing what we consider to be acceptible, on what some existing power considers to be acceptible.
