Re: Final text of GPL v3 (original) (raw)

This one time, at band camp, Francesco Poli said:

Clause 2c of GPLv2 is already an inconvenience and border-line with respect to DFSG-freeness. This is, at least, my humble opinion on the matter. "Border-line" does not mean that it fails the DFSG, but that it's very close to fail.

Compare with the obnoxious advertising clause of the 4-clause BSD license: it's an inconvenience close to fail the DFSG, IMO. But we accept it as DFSG-free.

If you believe this, then you are misreading the DFSG. We explicitly hold those two licenses up as exemplars of a free software license, to make it clear what the rest of the DFSG is about. If you find the exemplars are close to failing your idea of what the DFSG means, then your idea is wrong.

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