On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:45:31AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Oct 2016, Paul Wise wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > > > // 4. If anything other than configuration, indentation or comments have > > > been > > > // altered in the code, the modified code must be made accessible to > > > the > > > // original author(s). > > > This is impossible to comply with for those who do not have Internet > > access so I think it would fail DFSG item 5; No Discrimination Against > > Persons or Groups. > > ok -- playing devil's advocate (just a phrase, I am not of that opinion > about the upstream ;)) -- nothing there states about connectivity > (Internet) or media (digitized, printed) how they must be made > accessible. Could be via mail, bottle in the ocean, ...
In addition to the reply by Paul, there is also another common way to explain why this is not DFSG-free: It fails the "The Desert Island test": https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html So I guess bottles in the ocean were already considered and do not count as "making it accesible to the author". Thanks.
