Javier Serrano Polo <jav...@jasp.net> writes: > Please read #854679; it is about the ScummVM-game-License. As I analyze, > that license breaks DFSG #6 (no discrimination against fields of > endeavor). Author's intent is clear since he states that using the game > "in things like commercial adventure game collections without asking is > just playing dirty". The preamble is not legally binding, but sections 3 > and 4 of the license are.
Regardless of the merits of this concern, this is not an actionable bug against Debian Policy. I'm therefore closing it. Please note that this is not a judgement on whether or not your concerns about the Artistic License are correct; rather, this is simply outside the bailiwick of the Debian Policy process. We aren't the body in Debian that judges the DFSG compatibility of licenses (that's ftp-master), nor do we own or can modify the DFSG itself. You either need to convince ftp-master or you (or someone) need to propose a GR to change Debian's evaluation of the Artistic License. In fact, this may require a GR given the DFSG specifically calls out the Artistic License as an example of a free license, so depending on one's interpretation this may require a foundational document change, which is a supermajority GR. But that too is outside the scope of the Policy process; that's a call for the Project Secretary to make. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>