Wouter Vanden Hove wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote: >> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >>>MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Recall that the Creative Commons Attribution license was ruled to be >> DFSG-non-free by debian-legal (initial review request at >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/debian-legal-200403/msg00267.html >> , final summary at > > >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/debian-legal-200404/msg00031.html > > > "When any Licensor asks, all references to their name(s) must be purged > from the work. This restricts modification (DFSG 3)." > > This is an unalienable moral right in most of Europe.
No, it isn't. Or, anyway, I sure as hell hope not. Let me state this simply and clearly. If I state in my work, which is a derivative of RMS's, "I disagree with RMS about XXXX", or "RMS founded the FSF", where does he get off demanding that I remove his name? > If this is DFSG > non-free, then Debian has a serious problem, because then is it > logically impossible to have a license that is compatible with the DFSG > and European Law at the same time. > > >> The by-sa license is likely to be non-free as well for the same >> reasons. > If people think that, we don't they express their opinion about it on > the relevant mailinglist, namely [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought that was an alias to /dev/null, for all the responses I got from the request to change the HTML pages so that it was clear that the trademark stuff wasn't part of the license. -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.