Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Surely it's not the license that restricts the activities of the > >> dissident, it's the local authorities? If my government decrees that > >> anyone producing works that oblige source to be distributed with > >> binaries will be shot, that doesn't mean that the GPL discriminates > >> against a field of endeavour. > > > >The obvious difference is that there are no governments that have such > >laws, while there are plenty of real world scenarios where privacy is > >beneficial. The dissident test is merely a reasonable extreme case > >where that comes into play. > > If there were, would we consider the GPL non-free?
It certainly wouldn't be free in that jurisdiction. Whether Debian decides to care about such jurisdicitions is, to some degree, a policy decision. The thing about privacy is that it affects people in _every_ jurisdiction, so checking a license for whether it violates your privacy helps everyone. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
