On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:04:58PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > It's explicitly a compromise; it does not imply that Debian must allow not > > only patch clauses, but heavily restricted patches, or that restrictions > > on patches must be regarded without respect to the fact that it's pushing > > a compromise even further. > > It says nothing of the sort. The only thing DFSG 4 says relating to > patches is that requiring that modifications be patches is acceptable. > The only thing DFSG 4 says is that "You must be able to distribute > modified source or source and modification patches". Whether the terms > attached to those patches are free is up to the rest of the guidelines, > not DFSG 4.
That's interesting. My copy says "This is a compromise". > I believe that your interpretation of the core values is incorrect. I'm sorry to hear that you don't believe forking and code reuse are core values of Free Software. I don't think there's any point to us arguing further on that point. -- Glenn Maynard
