On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Steve McIntyre wrote: > All users of the software are given the same license. The license > itself does not discriminate against them; it does not say "no > people on a desert island may use this" or similar.
I think you're limiting it to explicit discrimination, whereas I feel it should apply to effective discrimination as well. Since the DFSG itself doesn't distinguish between the two in that clause, the latter is a perfectly reasonable interpretation. > If other circumstances created by local law or coincidence are > causing difficulties, then why is that a license problem? Because it is the license itself is playing a large part in generating the problem, as opposed to a local law or coincidence itself. Don Armstrong -- Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come. -- Tussman's Law http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
