On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:35:35AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > My opinion is that choice of venue is a restriction, and that "fees" are > > just > > one example of restrictions which "may not restrict" in DFSG#1 disallows. > > DFSG #1 says : "may not restrict any party from selling or giving away". > > I really don't understand how this can be covered by a choice of venue clause, > since there is no restriction whatsoever involved,
In order to distribute, you must agree to be bound by a choice of venue. That's a restriction. That doesn't mean that it's *necessarily* a restriction that Debian needs to considers non-free, of course. but I think "you must agree to this, this and that before you can redistribute" is certainly a restriction. > apart that you may be in > trouble once you willingly violate the licence. I don't really buy the > tentacle of evil argument, and feel that focalizing on potentially evil > upstreams is a disservice and an insult to every reasonable-minded upstream. Well, we disagree here; I'll forego debating it, since that's been done already. -- Glenn Maynard