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

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Stephen Gran sgran@debian.org writes:

You continually miss the point that the GPL is explicitly noted as a free license, which means that anything in the GPL is DFSG free.

No. It means that works licensed under the GPL are considered free software under the DFSG. That does not mean that "anything in the GPL is DFSG free" outside the context of a work licensed under the GPL.

It especially doesn't mean that one can construct a new license using selected clauses from the GPL and have those clauses in a different context be automatically "DFSG free".

A work is free by the DFSG only by considering the entire context of the terms placed upon it.

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