> ... for the manpages to be Free, you should be able to use them for > totally non-POSIX purposes, and with the clause as written, it seems > that you can't. ... be a recurring blind spot in people who think > they're writing free licenses; they only consider the most common > reason for making derivative works of their work, and accidentally > prohibit or put ridiculous restrictions on making other derivative > works. Perhaps it deserves a FAQ?
Good idea. Please feel free to modify in place ~bap/public_html/dfsg-faq.html on people.debian.org and I will examine and CVS commit. Or, send me a patch. This also goes for other improvements to the document. --Barak. -- Barak A. Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www-bcl.cs.may.ie/~barak/