On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:33:22PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Any free/community use can do whatever it wants, quite literally. > > Any commercial distribution that wishes to call itself Xen must be > > compatible with other Xen branded commercial offerings, otherwise > > the commercial distribution is not Xen. This is determined by the > > FIT test. > > If ???compatible with ?????? can be ???determined by the FIT test??? without > the > prospective redistributor ever needing to contact another particular > party, this would seem to me to satisfy the DFSG. > > If, on the other hand, such compatibility requires some kind of > interaction with a particular party (e.g. to get the FIT test, > register for compatibility, confirm the test, or otherwise) then this > is a ???phone home??? restriction on redistribution. > > A useful test is the ???dissident??? test: can someone who wishes to > remain anonymous manage to determine whether their commercial > redistribution is permitted? > > Another useful test is the ???desert island??? test: can someone who is > isolated from any arbitrary portion of the larger world, and has > *only* the work in question (the Xen code base), nevertheless modify > and redistribute the work commercially to others in their circle, > knowing that they are complying with the applicable licenses? > > I guess in both those instances, the redistributor could simply rename > the work to be on the safe side. So long as this option remains > available I guess the combination is DFSG-free.
Will the FIT test be DFSG free ? Regards, Paddy -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): .sig too big -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
