On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:43:56AM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: David Yitzchak Cohen in <20031201093757.GV18414@xxxxxxx> > > > Martin Schulze in <20031111105924.GY2458@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > | The license incorrectly says that it's LGPL but it is in fact > > > | a unique license which is non-DFSG-free. > > > > What's DFSG??? > > Debian Free Software Guidelines: > http://www.debian.org/intro/free > http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines Ah, thanks ... that was all I needed :-) > Debian has a mailing list (debian-legal) that is mostly concerned with > evaluating and discussing strange and funny licenses, to help decide > whether they are free in the DFSG sense. Adding the above was going beyond the call of duty. Thank you very much :-) > I you can probably find > discussions about aspell in the archives: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/ > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200210/msg00204.html This link is neat, since it gives a particular example (ours, in fact) of how annoying it is to juggle lisences around. Once again, I didn't need that link (although I happily read the thread there, anyway); I was just trying to get a basic idea of WTF DFSG might be. Thanks a bunch, - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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