On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 12:44:18 PM MST Simon Josefsson wrote: > Interesting. How do you combine that view with the interpretation that > went into rejecting GFDL as a free license? I'm having trouble > following your line of thinking after reading the following, especially > regarding 2.1 Invariant Sections: > > https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 > > To be specific, how is this situation any different from a GFDL document > with an Invariant Section including the text of the DCO or, say, the GPL > license, or the GNU Manifesto? > > /Simon
The GFDL with Invariant Section is not the right comparison. The correct comparison is to the GPL (which has the exact same wording). The difference is that nothing that is delivered to the user in the form of code or documentation that they cannot modify according to the GPL and the DCO. With invariant sections of the GFDL, documentation is delivered to the end user that they cannot modify. The distinct is important. The very foundation of most DFSG-free licenses is that copyright and license information must be preserved in all copies (in other words, copyright and licensing information are invariant, often specifically required to be verbatim). Everything else can be changed by the users. In very few cases in Debian are you free to remove copyright or licensing information from the top of a file and redistribute it. If you feel strongly that the DCO is not DFSG-compliant, I would encourage you to make your best argument to the greater Debian community (it would need to be an argument that has not to this point been made). I would recommend that instead of focusing on the DCO, you should focus on why you feel the GPL (and, honestly, the Apache License 2.0, all the BSD variants, Expat, and most other licenses distributed in Debian that require that the unchanged text of the license be included in all copies and derivative works) is not compatible with the DFSG as more people are familiar with the GPL than the DCO. Any conclusion reached about the GPL will automatically apply to the DCO. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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