Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> since I've got upstreams (having copied some code from others,
> that's why they aren't spelling it out directly) that aren't
> convinced that having the rights to copy, use, modify is
> insufficient to meet the DFSG.
This is answered directly by DFSG §3:
3. Derived Works
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must
allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license
of the original software.
> From what I recall having read during NM, I've never seen any
> discussion comparing the rights to copy and to (re)distribute. Could
> someone please shed some light, and/or share pointers to some nice
> reading on that topic?
I'm sure the Debian Free Software Guidelines FAQ document
<URL:http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq> discusses this, but the
URL is currently giving a 403 Forbidden response :-(
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