On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:28:43 -0700 Joel Aelwyn wrote:

> If those rights are not available - under the same terms - to our
> downstreams (be they users, custom distros... whatever), then by the
> spirit of DFSG #8 (at least IMO), we shouldn't be able to make use of
> them either.

Exactly.
DFSG #8 seems quite clear to me: we do *not* consider Free
something that gives all the other important freedoms to Debian only,
and not to downstream recipients as well.

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