On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Don Armstrong writes: > >I think you're limiting it to explicit discrimination, whereas I feel > >it should apply to effective discrimination as well. > > So where does this stop?
Presumably where the good to free software outweighs the effective discrimination. That's why we're discussing it now (and have discussed it in the past.) We're trying to determine what amount discrimination is allowable in a free license. > Just about every current free license out there will have clauses > that may clash with national laws somewhere. Yes, but presumably those are a case of the national laws restricting the freedom of the user, rather than the license itself restricting that freedom. > Be reasonable here, please: "effective discrimination" is a very > shaky thing to start claiming... It's not necesarily shaky, it's just that there isn't a clear defining line where allowable discrimination starts, and disallowable discrimination begins. DFSG 5 is perhaps purposely vague in this regard. Don ARmstrong -- If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. -- Lowery's Law http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
