On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:01:22PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Where does the Social Contract bind us to using no tool other than the DFSG > >to determine whether a work we distribute as part of our system is free? > > > >Interestingly, the new version of the Social Contract[1] seems to give us > >less latitude than the original version[2] in using anything adjunct to the > >DFSG for freeness determinations. > > Given that the changes to the SC were merely editorial (as stated in the > proposal that was seconded by you), any restriction present in the new > SC that isn't there in the old one is down to you misreading the old > one.
Not necessrily. It could be the case that the guidelines are guidelines in
both cases, that I was right about the meaning of the old SC, and that I am
simply misreading the *new* one.
> I'm certainly not clear that the new SC gives any leeway to use tests
> that don't spring directly from the DFSG.
Put that way, it doesn't give us any leeway to use "tests" at all.
In any event, I laid out my approach to upholding the Social Contract in
this respect a while back[1].
Feel free to take it apart now, since you didn't at the time.
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/03/msg00211.html
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