Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> writes: > On Monday, November 25, 2024 12:35:17 AM MST Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Hi. >> >> The DCO v1.1 published on https://developercertificate.org/ says: >> >> Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors. >> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this >> license document, but changing it is not allowed. >> >> The license appears non-free to me, does anyone disagree? > > I am curious as to what aspect of this license you consider non-free? I am > not concerned about "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim > copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.” Those > exact > words appear at the top of the GPL, which is considered a free license. > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
The difference is that while GPL is the license of a piece of work in Debian, I have not interepted the DCO to be a license text related to a piece of work. The DCO is just like any other text file included in a tarball. Compare it with a GFDL manual with an Invariant sections that may not be modified. /Simon
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