On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Please let me know what you think.
I think we have had this debate before :} I don't remember what the final result was, but most agreed that it is silly to place restrictions on a license agreement that are already implied by local law, as they are really beyond the scope of licensing. Who is going to be prevented from using software by a license agreement, that is already unconcerned with the law? It certainly looks as if the intent of this clause is to prevent the software author from being held liable of an end user uses it for some illegal purpose. But I don't think that would be likely, anyway, even with the modern legal climate. My particular perspective is that it *should* not make a package DFSG-unfree. Since the software cannot be used in the prohibited manner anyway, no actual freedom is restricted.