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. -- .''`. Jossel

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

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

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