On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:49:01 +0200, Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:22:02AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>
>> And the DFSG:
>> >> 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.
> In reply to Manoj I proposed the following interpretation of the
> words "the license must allow modifications" (as I have explained
> many times "must allow arbitrary modifications" is impossible
> interpretation):
> The license must give us enough permissions to modify the work in
> order to adapt it to various needs or to improve it.
Firstly, if my needs require me to rtemove the secondary
sections, and invariant sections, I should be allowed to do so
Secondly, I reject this as being wehat the text already
present says. "The license must allow modifications" means that the
license must allow modifications -- with no codicils that the
modifications be what the author thinks is non-arbitary.
> In order to make reasonably evident that this is not just my
> interpretation but also interpretation that is shared by many other
> Debian developers I decided to ask Richard Stallman for the opinion
> of FSF.
This is irrelevant.
manoj
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