Re: Advertising Clauses in Licenses

2002-02-13 Thread Russell Nelson
Forrest J. Cavalier III writes: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (in part) There is much in the OSD which is insufficiently explicit. For example, we have maintained that there are no possible restrictions a license could put on users, because there is no possible mechanism

Re: Advertising Clauses in Licenses

2002-02-13 Thread Russell Nelson
Bruce Perens writes: From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is much in the OSD which is insufficiently explicit. For example, we have maintained that there are no possible restrictions a license could put on users, because there is no possible mechanism one could use to

Re: Advertising Clauses in Licenses

2002-02-13 Thread Bruce Perens
Unfortunately, the OSD is not very well written. Of course we had no idea, at the time, that the scope of application of this portion of the Debian Social Contract would grow so large. I think that we'd better fix this particular problem regarding use before we get to the more pervasive