Clark: You should speak to FSF, and possibly to Richard Stallman himself about this idea.
How to enforce such a license against porting software to Wine ? I do not know... Anyway: originally Free Software was very permissive (MIT-style), non-copyleft. Then came in the GPL. Now came the AGPL to enforce Free Software for Web / Cloud. Will "Free Platform License" be the next step ? It *is* clearly a stronger copyleft than both GPL and AGPL. And yes, I agree it will open a new window of dual-license companies. GPL-compatibility: It *is* possible to make it GPL-compatible, if Stallman releases GPLv4 with such forward-compatibility, like he did with GPLv3<->AGPLv3 license bridge. GPLv4 (or v3.1?) can be a small revision against GPLv3 only adding ability to migrate to this new license. If you can convince Stallman, GPL-compatibility can be done. About Debian's DFSG: I'm not sure if such a license will violate DFSG5: "No discrimination against persons or groups.", but it might. and DFSG9 also. BETA-testing of software: Today, much of cross-platform Open Source Software is tested by Windows crowd. VirtualBox, LibreOffice, and more are examples of this... Linux-only versions (KVM and KOffice) enjoy from less testers. Speak to Free Software Foundation or to Software Freedom Law Center. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOJ6w=g2kvac8i8o-msgggvrc1ht1hfibkit-p99j7dxzm3...@mail.gmail.com
