Re: Hacking License

2018-12-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 1:45 AM Paul Jakma wrote: > There is an issue with the GPL style copyleft of abuse by corporates. In > particular, abusing the ability to discharge source distribution > privately, and then using various forms of side-contracts to > (indirectly) "discourage" recipients

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-10 Thread Giacomo Tesio
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 18:31, Ian Jackson wrote: > Or are you really convinced that these other issues are showstoppers > and that without handling them in your licence, downstreams will abuse > their position ? Frankly that doesn't seem particularly likely. This library implements a

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-10 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: Or are you really convinced that these other issues are showstoppers and that without handling them in your licence, downstreams will abuse their position ? Frankly that doesn't seem particularly likely. Without denigrating what you're saying on

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Giacomo Tesio writes ("Re: Hacking License"): > On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 17:29, Ian Jackson > > I think Giacomo would be well served by adopting AGPLv3+ and > > nominating himself as licence steward. > > Thanks for your suggestion. > Unfortunately AGPLv3 doesn't cover many of the issues I try to

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-10 Thread Giacomo Tesio
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 17:29, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Xavier writes ("Re: Hacking License"): > > No Debian accepts any license that are DFSG compliant (DFSG is just a > > guidelines). You may use the 3 tests to understand what may be wrong : > > These tests are not official. AFAIAA they do not

Re: Hacking License

2018-12-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Xavier writes ("Re: Hacking License"): > No Debian accepts any license that are DFSG compliant (DFSG is just a > guidelines). You may use the 3 tests to understand what may be wrong : These tests are not official. AFAIAA they do not form part of the approval process used by the Debian ftpmasters