On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:08:48AM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: > > As I already said, forbidding commercial use is definitely *against* the > > spirit of free software and the intent of the DFSG.
> Yes it is. But AFAIK, no one is debating the DFSG-freeness of CC NC or > ND licenses. Hardly. You yourself said in the message immediately preceding this one: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:45:52AM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > Hardly. CC fans seem to see nothing wrong with discriminating against any > > field of endeavour, such as commerce or technical protection. > I'm not surprised to see MJ Ray say this, since he has chosen to ignore > the fallacies in his arguments. The only "field of endeavour" that CC > licenses block is the "field of endeavour" of "copying and distributing > without honoring the license" which ALL copyleft licenses (including the > GPL) do (indeed all licenses -- free or otherwise -- prevent some form > of copying and distributing, or they would simply be public domain). Got a split personality thing going, there, or are you just naturally contrary? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
