On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:15:25 +0200 Jacobo Tarrio wrote: > O Xoves, 14 de Abril de 2005 ás 01:22:56 +0200, Francesco Poli > escribía: > > > > A: The DFSG is a set of minimum criteria that are taken into > > > account when > > > deciding if a particular copyright license is free or not. > > I would prefer "if a particular /work/ is free or not." > > Actually, it would be a mix of both: "if a particular work, with its > copyright license, is free or not".
Well, not really.
Copyright ones are not the only issues that matter when we check whether
a work is DFSG-free.
The work could fail to grant the freedoms we value for other reasons
(actively enforced software patents, too restrictive trademarks, and so
forth).
I repropose "if a particular /work/ is free or not."
[...]
> > [...] they fail to see the difference between creating a derivative
> > work and modifying the work itself [...]
>
> I'll add "; it just creates a new work, derivative of the original
> RFC" to
> the sentence, since the "derivative work" bit is important :-)
It seems like a good clarification...
[...]
> > [Comment] Good example. My favorite one is the following: if the
> > license of a MUA forbade to add HTML mail support (because the
> > authors are philosophically against HTML mail), this license would
> > be considered non-free, even when it would be protecting the
> > authors' own opinions.
>
> This is even a better example than mine. I'll change mine to this
> (the old
> one is kept saved in the page's [1] history).
Wow! :)
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