| Hamish Moffatt 2005-03-27, 2:47 am |
| On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 09:25:00AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
>
> Sounds like "we want this in main, freedoms or not". I want it in
Actually, it's not. You'll note that I omitted the words "freedoms or
not", because that's not what I intend.
Frankly I can't spot the flaw in this approach. In general we want to
distribute all useful bitstreams (programs, documentation and firmware)
in Debian. However we are forced to disqualify the ones that don't have
adequate freedoms. It's a subtractive process. We disqualify licenses
that don't provide adequate freedom, rather than just allowing the ones
with maximum freedom.
The GPL isn't as free as it could be. It doesn't allow me to reuse GPL
code in my proprietary program, or even under another perfectly free
open-source license! The BSD license offers more freedoms. We
consider the GPL to provide adequate freedom for Debian, though
not it does not provide maximum freedom by any means.
Hamish
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