On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:08:08AM -0500, Simon Law wrote: > I always thought that the FSF's (and RMS's) Four Freedoms were > always the basis of the DFSG. I merely thought that the DFSG exists to > codify these concepts and make them more concrete. Sort of like a > checklist so we don't forget anything.
I think the DFSG actually predates the FSF's codification of the Four Freedoms. However, my memory of events from the previous century is somewhat unreliable. > What might be a useful thing to do is start adding appendices to > the DFSG with examples of how we have interpreted certain sections. > (With valid, and invalid arguments in each.) It should be made very > clear that these examples are merely to clarify the opinions of > debian-legal, and are in no way binding. Indeed. I would welcome such a document, though so far I have not had the energy to create one. It will also be a useful source of inspiration when we get around to proposing changes to the DFSG. Richard Braakman
