Don Armstrong writes: >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.
So where does this stop? Just about every current free license out there will have clauses that may clash with national laws somewhere. Be reasonable here, please: "effective discrimination" is a very shaky thing to start claiming... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray
