olive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > However the DFSG is there to juge if a license is free or not and these > guidlines must be used to juge the freeness of a software. A lot of > zealots in this list just invent way to reject licenses they don't like > even if these complies with the DFSG; or invent some discriminations.
The DFSG are there to help decide whether *software* is free or not. You can often make most of the decision by considering the licence, but not always. debian-vote is not known as a hotbed of rejecting licences, but the FDL does not comply with DFSG. Any work under the FDL alone doesn't follow DFSG, like most other adware licences: it forbids many reasonable derived works (s1 para3/4, s4), over-protects the integrity of the author's source (s2, s3, s4) and discriminates against fields of endeavour (s1 para3/4 when combined with any invariant section must discriminate against one or more of history, law, commerce, philosophy, ethics or politics - the work can no longer be used for whichever purposes are covered by the invariant section; if it were, the invariant section would no longer be secondary, as its contents "could fall directly within that overall subject" and so the FDL could not be satisfied). Discrimination against the field of commerce has always been a fairly uncontroversial way to fail to meet DFSG 6, as far as I know, and the FDL does it. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]