Jeremy Hankins wrote: > Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>What alternative do you offer to ensure that attribution occurs? >>None. There is no alternative actually. > > > Exactly: we offer no alternative. This is not a disagreement about > which method of ensuring attribution is correct and acceptable, but a > disagreement about whether or not it is appropriate to force attribution > according to some particular standard. > > It is entirely within your rights as copyright holder to push whatever > social agenda you wish with your software license -- but debian-legal's > position is that that will make the license non-free. If you wish to > require that it not be used in nuclear facilities, fine: non-free. If > you require that people who use the software spend a moment to think > about the plight of the homeless, fine: non-free. Just as, when you > require attribution in a particular format and with a particular text, > that's fine, but non-free.
Did you say this as an official debian spokesperson? Carl-Daniel