* Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080228 20:54]: > On Thursday 28 February 2008 11:27:15 am Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > * Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080228 20:01]: > > > On Thursday 28 February 2008 10:19:26 am Walter Landry wrote: > > > > You just have not been around long enough ;) The desert island test > > > > was first mentioned in 2002 in > > > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/01/msg00010.html > > > > > > An actual cite to the DFSG, but it is from before my time... of course, > > > there is no explanation of how a "licenses in which any changes must be > > > sent to some specific place" violates: > > > > > > 1. Free redistribution. > > > 2. Inclusion of source code. > > > 3. Allowing for modifications and derived works. > > > > The desert island test and the dissident test are just simple examples > > why "you may modify provided that you publish" is something very > > different from "you may modify". > > Which is yet different from "you may modify provided that when you distribute > you also provide soure code"... DFSG #3 says there must be a means to make > modification, it doesn't say anything about conditions.
A permission with conditions to hard to fullfill simply is no condition. That is an easy and clear difference. (If you want to argue with other points one can also put #1 #5 #6 or (that your example is a difference #3) in there, but even #3 alone can hardly be considered to apply to software who's licence forces publication of modificatons). This is an old topic, which has been discussed almost to death that I can hardly bear to bring all the standard arguments again, but anyone thinking conditions do not matter shall tell my why a license saying "you may modify the software if you are not named <insert your name here>" is not free. After all in large parts of the world changing name has no direct cost and if you live in so oppressive a country not allowing it for free, it's your fault and you could as well move to another country easily. </sarcasm> Hope this help the thread to die, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
