Ben Finney wrote: >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.
So long as you add the rider that some of the debian-legal subscribers believe it (and some of the other common "tests") are ridiculously contrived and bogus. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
