Scripsit Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 11:01:06PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > Scripsit Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > If the interpretation of "made available" allows not only private > > > communication but also "public disclosure" as an option, is this > > > still non-DSFG-free no matter what? > > The usual interpretation is that the license must let the licensee > > decide whom, if any, he's going to distribute his derived works to. > Licensee has right to sublicence. So he can choose freely. I though > this requirement can be met by Debian. No, as far as I understand, the licensee can not choose only to distribute his modifications privately to his neighbour. It says "The Improvements shall promptly be made available by the Licensee to the Licensor", which means that one can't chose not to distribute to the original author. > > This is not idle theory. Licenses have been rejected in the past > > because they requires users to give the original author a copy of > > modifications they made. > Aha, so you mean if user modifies the source code and he use it just for > him, he should be allowed to keep it secret. Yes. > You insist that this is part of DSFG requirements. Yes. > Can you give me a pointer? It's "common knowlegde", really ... for one of many occations where it has been discussed on the list, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2000/debian-legal-200003/msg00119.html > > No. A license will not be DFSG-free if it disallows non-public > > distribution of derived works. > ??? GPL restricts non-public distribution of derived works. No it doesn't. At least if one understands my words "non-public distribution of derived works" as meaning "non-public distribution WITH SOURCE of derived works", which was by intention. > What's wrong with restricting non-public distribution of derived > works as a free software? It is not free anymore. -- Henning Makholm "Take a sad song, and make it bitter." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
