Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a wide difference. The GPLv3 is explicitly making a statement: > "these restrictions are acceptable". Permissive licenses merely say "I > don't care". It implies that the FSF considers such restrictions free, > and either hasn't considered, or doesn't care, about the legitimate > applications that it implicitly prohibits.
The fact that they claim the Affero license is free didn't suggest that to you already? > (On the same note, the patch exception in DFSG#4 has got to go; patch > clauses prohibit code reuse entirely. Some day ...) Patch clauses only prohibit code reuse if your build system is insufficiently complicated. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]