Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >This fails the "desert island test", and so the package is non-free. > > The "desert island test" is just something which was invented a few > years ago by some debian-legal@ posters
In other words, the "desert island test" is a way of expressing a commonly-encountered freeness problem with license terms, in a way that doesn't require the entire thing spelled out every time. It seems quite appropriate for it to be referenced here, since the OP is asking the opinion of debian-legal. > and is not part of the DFSG. If reading the DFSG was all that was required to determine the freeness of a work, no-one would need to discuss anything on debian-legal. As it happens, human language is imprecise, so interpretation and discussion is needed. -- \ “All television is educational television. The question is: | `\ what is it teaching?” —Nicholas Johnson | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
