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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Free Pine?
From:       Henning Makholm <henning () makholm ! net>
Date:       2000-09-05 15:29:01
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Scripsit Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>

> Then why do we have DSFG #8 `License Must Not Be Specific to Debian'
> if there is no Debian?

There *is* a Debian. But it's not a legal *person*, it's a *work*.

It is possible to write up a license that says, for example, that
copies of program X may be sold for monetary gain only as long as
it is sold together with an entire official Debian diskset or an
entire snapshot of the FTP archive.

Such a license would fail #8 because it is specific to the work
Debian.

-- 
Henning Makholm                                 "Need facts -- *first*. Then
                                            the dialysis -- the *analysis*."


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