On 18 Aug 2005 17:42:47 GMT MJ Ray wrote: [...] > > Could I submit a license for > > review just for my own personal interest and even though it is > > unlikely said license will ever be used in debian free or non-free? > > You could, but you will probably get a lower response. Please > try more general forums like those hosted by the FSFs or on > Usenet. (I'm not really up-to-date: where should we refer to?)
It's true that discussing licenses in a vacuum is not (should not be) debian-legal business, but nonetheless there is an issue with your advice, IMHO. Trying other 'forums' will probably produce a *different* answer. We use the DFSG as the guidelines to determine if a work is free or not. Other groups/foundations/projects use *different* criteria. I'm referring to well-known cases such as Debian and FSF disagreeing about the GFDL, and similar ones. So, what I ask myself is: | if you feel that the DFSG are the best criteria to determine the | freeness of a work, what's the most appropriate place to discuss about | the freeness of works released under a particular license? To me it's difficult to answer anything but "debian-legal"... -- :-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-) ...................................................................... Francesco Poli GnuPG Key ID = DD6DFCF4 Key fingerprint = C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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