Ulrich Mueller schrieb: >> Why not directly use the FSF freedoms: >> The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). >> The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does >> your computing as you wish (freedom 1). >> The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor >> (freedom 2). >> The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others >> (freedom 3). > >> I think when combined appropriately, they nicely cover most of the >> cases of current "as-is" packages. > > This has been suggested before, but for license groups. The problem > is that the four freedoms are good criteria for Free Software, but > there's no good mapping to the elements of most non-free licenses. > > Try it yourself for a few concrete cases (of non-free licenses in our > tree), and you'll see what I mean.
I tried it on two non-free packages that I maintain (bitstream-cyberbit and radeon-ucode) and it works well there: bitstream-cyberbit: 0 but not 1, 2 or 3. radeon-ucode: 0 and 2 but not 1 or 3. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
