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Re:"Social Contract" [anti-trust]

Good evening Bruce and others!

> > While respecting the copyright and license terms of each component of the
> > Debian distribution, we claim ownership of the distribution as a whole
> > and reserve the right to restrict its use by any party which damages
> > the Project's image or its goals, as decided by us.
> > In particular, we will not allow Debian-based distributions which contain
> > proprietary enhancements to an important part of Debian.
> 
> I don't like this so far - after everything else we say about freedom
> it would be shooting ourselves in the foot. This topic has been argued
> to death on comp.os.linux.advocacy - my personal take is that it does
> not matter if someone derives a system with lots of non-free stuff as
> long as there continues to be a free system and the possibility of
> competition.

I second that.  We can hardly encourage authors to distribut their
packages under a free licence which also means that a company can
take the source files and produce a derived work out of it (even
with a very different approach) but restrict our distribution as
a whole.  I believe this would be paranoid.

Regards

	Joey

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