Re: Can I modify the DFSG (and not derive from)?

2003-08-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 29/08/2003 à 22:01, Mathieu Roy a écrit : The DFSG is free enough to be useful -- you still cannot just simply modify it and redistribute it under the same name, do you? So what? The LPPL has the same restriction and is considered free by Debian, GNU and OSI. -- .''`.

Can I modify the DFSG (and not derive from)?

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:53:09PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: Yes, and our goal is to always respect authors: by not distributing works that they don't wish to make available under the terms of the DFSG. Including the GPL and the DFSG?

Re: Can I modify the DFSG (and not derive from)?

2003-08-29 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:01:40PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: The DFSG is free enough to be useful -- you still cannot just simply modify it and redistribute it under the same name, do you? Or is that exactly what mean build on? Am I able to publish a DFSG named DFSG (if it's just because

Re: Can I modify the DFSG (and not derive from)?

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-29 21:01:40 +0100 Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I for instance take a copy of Debian and redistribute it by _only_ changing the DFSG text, adding a line saying that the GFDL qualified documentation as free documentation? Probably (modulo any trademark guff), but if you