2015-03-26 10:57 GMT+01:00 Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl>: > Op 25-03-15 om 21:00 schreef Riley Baird: >>>> They're probably doing some crazy AGPL bits on top of more restrictively >>>> licensed bits; since they're the copyright holder, they can do that, but >>>> it may mean that no one else can actually use and/or distribute the >>>> code. >>> >>> No, it's plain AGPL v3. But he asks friendly not to remove some code and >>> then redistribute. >> >> Social Contract Section 4: Our priorities are our **users** and free >> software > > Both. Not "users" more then "free software".
And adding artificial restrictions to software that harm our users, even when it might benefit upstream, will not help either our users nor free software, despite what might be argued that benefiting upstream could indirectly help the software they produce. But, regardless of abstract debates, this is what I consider the most likely outcome of such situation, if it ever appears. Imagine someone packages the software including that restriction and uploads it to the archive. If someone uses the software, it is quite likely that some user will file a bug request asking the maintainers to remove that particular restriction, In the case that the developer refuses to remove the restriction, what I would expect is a flame that will eventually end up in the CTTE intervening or a GR, because I'm sure that not all DDs will see such a situation with good eyes. In fact, as Walter Landry said, there's precedent of such kind of restrictions being removed for our users' sake, for example the case of xpdf. In the end, I would eventually expect that the restriction would be removed. And, even in the unpredictable case that Debian kept it, Ubuntu, Mint and any other derivatives could also remove it on their own, they don't need Debian's permission to do so. As I said (and this doesn't have anything to do with Debian, per se), I don't think in the end that might be a sustainable business model, sorry. Greetings, Miry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cafotxvosf+9ugaq-veiy63yaz+porehyoe1toeupbt9ezqr...@mail.gmail.com
