On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:01:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It is exactly because it is anyway wrong to not cite authors that it is > > better to leave the requirement out of the licence. When we publish > > scientific articles, we do not put a disclaimer on the top saying "if > > you read this article, you must properly cite it if you re-use some > > results or concepts in your research." > > > Having that kind or requirement in licences has multipls consequences: > > > - It makes the software non-compliant to the DFSG. > > Why? I don't see anything in the DFSG that says that licenses may not > require citing authors, and in fact many DFSG-free licenses require that > one preserve copyright statements or authorship information.
I don't think we want to turn d-mentors into an alternate debian-legal. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]