TL;DR: Fontana, please accept the merge request at https://gitorious.org/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/merge_requests/25 to restore the "install and run" wording until such time as community consensus is reached regarding a compromise of which users should actually get the freedom to install modified versions.
On 11/27/2012 10:46 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
My understanding of the functional requirement of Sec. 9(ii) was that it required the *ability* to install, not merely a description of how it might be done:
"all scripts, instructions and information known to you necessary for a skilled developer to build, compile, generate, modify, install and run the Covered Work."
I understand that Luis' clients, who aren't friendly to the rights of users to install modified versions of software, would want this removed. I'm sorry to see that Richard has removed it at Luis' behest without any discussion about the issue.
I've now taken out "install and run" from the definition of Corresponding Source.
The right to install and run modified versions is *the* essential freedom that copyleft must now defend, especially with embedded systems.
GPLv3 made compromises of various sorts of this regard. However, it's a mistake for copyleft-next to "start" the negotiation point as "users have no freedom to install and run modified versions".
Therefore, I've submitted a merge request to revert this change. Please accept it. If Luis and those who oppose the freedom to install and run modified versions want to propose a compromise position -- as was done by the same powers-that-be during GPLv3 -- they should propose a compromise that allows the freedom to install modified versions some but not all of the time, as GPLv3 does. Then we can consider the compromise as a community.
Let's start at protecting the rights to install and run. Luis can propose an actual patch that shows what compromise he and his clients want on this front, and then we as a community can decide if that's the right compromise.
Please accept my merge request to revert the change that was made without real discussion, and then let Luis propose a patch for a compromise.