*countable infinities only

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Wed Jun 6 03:08:23 UTC 2012


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El Wed, 6 Jun 2012 03:58:14 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> escribió:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:43:03PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> 
> > We don't allow software in fedora that has a license that has a
> > usage restriction that says it can not be used in a commercial
> > environment for instance. I do not see why we would allow software
> > that says you can use this as long as secureboot is off. it is
> > essentially the same thing. its a usage restriction. 
> 
> There's a distinction between something that's enforced by the
> license and something that's merely code. We may not agree with
> maintainer decisions, and we (as a project) may even require that
> they be reverted, but we have the freedom to remove that restriction
> and therefore it's not an issue as far as free software is concerned.
> 

im talking purely about the wording of the license in that paragraph.
if someone sumbited a license that had something along the lines of
"software under this license can not be used on UEFI systems with
secure mode enabled"  we would reject the license as unfree.


Dennis
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