On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:44:46 +0200 David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > First, IANAL and not a native speaker nor a regular debian-legal > > reader, but I can't see what is exactly nonfree in this piece of > > licence. In my reading it just says, > > > > 1) Do what you want with it > > 2) Keep a NO WARRANTY section in the licence > > 3) Don't do any illegal stuff > > The last is the killer; say you're a suspected dissident that's > prohibited from using a computer or computing software, making your > copying of the software illegal. Thus after using this software send > an email to journalists revealing the ongoing genocide of your people, > and escaping to the free world, you are now open to civil prosecution > for copyright violation. It discriminates against classes of users and > thus violates the DFSG. Living in a quitte civilised country (well they're doing their best to change it, last week our prime minister was saying people really shouldn't make jokes about the royal family), I didn't think of that one... grts Tim