Le 06/12/2018 à 10:29, Giacomo Tesio a écrit : > Il giorno gio 6 dic 2018 alle ore 02:12 Ben Finney > <bign...@debian.org> ha scritto: >> Giacomo, I again ask you: please don't impose on the free software >> community the burden of yet another roll-your-own license text. > > Ben, I'm a hacker. And I'm Italian. > To me Freedom will NEVER mean permission to pick a product off the shelf.
Hello, it seems to be a little conflict between what you want to do and the spirit of DFSG: - DFSG have been chosen in the spirit: using debian/main, you are free to do anything you want without having to look at each package (even if you sell hardware embedding it,...), but if you use non-free branch, you have to check each license to be sure you are granted to use this software - it seems you want to restrict this for your package usage, then non-free is the good branch to publish it >> We already have a minefield of difficult-to-predict interacting clauses >> just with the *existing* license conditions that are well known. > > Yet how many strong copyleft we have? > How many are really designed to maximise user freedom? > How many are designed with a distributed computing environment in mind? > >> Adding yet another set of conditions massively multiplies the potential >> set of combinations, making it that much harder to determine whether a >> given work is free software. Please realise that this is *not* a benefit >> to the community. > > This is a issue of existing international copyright regulation. > If you want to reform it, I'm totally with you. > No software should be allowed to be proprietary or secret. > > By turning users to hackers, the Hacking License is a step into this > direction. This is clearly in conflict with DFSG. "non-free" branch isn't there to blame projects but just to explain to users that they have to check license before using it. >>> Does this license match the DFSG? > [...] > > I really understand your concerns. > I carefully ponder your objections. > And I'm eager to know which lines makes the Hacking License look > non-free to your eyes: I will try to remove every ambiguity. > > But I'm not asking permission. > > The Hacking License exists as a response to the bad moves I see around > (and ultimately against) free software. > Since I can't trust anymore many existing actors, I'm hacking a solution > myself. > > >> -- >> \ “To have the choice between proprietary software packages, is | >> `\ being able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a | >> _o__) master.” —Richard M. Stallman, 2007-05-16 | > > To have the choice between "blessed free software licenses" is > being able to choose your master... and your users' master. > > I have no master. This is your choice and you are in your right. Thanks for contributing to free software. Cheers, Xavier
