>> all that was removed was *code* that gets compiled. If the maintainer >> cannot arbitrarily change any code he wants, then it is not clear that >> the program is DFSG-free.
> Amen. Making part of the code immutable is not what I call free > software. What if I want to use parts of the code and I respect the > copyright and license...does that mean I also have to take this part of > the code and output the credits? What if environment doesn't provide a > way to output the credits. What if I am implementing the reiser tools on > an embedded system that will never show any such output? > What about programs that execute the reiserfs tools (like bootup > scripts)...are they not allowed to redirect or filter this output? > If any of this is questionable, then I suspect reiserfs tools isn't DFSG > compliant and belongs in non-free with all it's flakiness. Wow.. what an reaction :). Hans's original message was that the credits were not included with the distributed files, nothing else. Or am I completely mistaken? -------- PGP public key: https://tnonline.net/secure/pgp_key.txt