Scripsit Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Perhaps we should consider amending section 4 of the DFSG so > that instead of only allowing one restriction on modification (changes > must be distributed in source form as patches to the unmodified > sources) to allowing any restrictions on a Debian Free Software > Warts List. This "warts" list would include the patch, and would > also include some other carefully chosen statements about what > we allow.
I agree that explicitly listing which restrictions we _do_ allow in free software would be much saner than trying to list restrictions that we do not allow. > We might also want to stipulate that software without warts > can't depend on software with warts (I don't think we currently > do this, but if we're increasing our risk of running into > problems, we should try to contain those risks). I think that would be too difficult to manage. Either we consider the wart free and allow everything else to depend on it, or we consider it non-fee and classify software appropriately. (Observant readers may remember that I tried to start some discussion about rewriting the DFSG along these lines some years ago, at <http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00955.html>). -- Henning Makholm "I tried whacking myself repeatedly with the cluebat. Unfortunately, it was not as effective as whacking someone else." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
