Seth David Schoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Caspian writes: > > > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Seth David Schoen wrote: > > > > > This trend concerns me, too, but if you want to stop them, you will need > > > to show why what they are doing is not only nasty but also illegal. > > > > > > Remember that the DFSG _prohibits_ licenses from forbidding the use of > > > non-free software in a distribution. > > > > It does? This is rather disturbing news. Why does it do this? > > You'd have to ask the people who wrote it. Bruce? :-)
It was, IIRC, primarily a reaction to the non-free Ghostscript license, which declared that it could only be distributed on media that contained only free software. We decided that that was too much of a restriction.
