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Re: provocative actions

On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> Putting Debian on a KDE CD was a provocative action. We can't object to it
I know we've beat this past death,  but why is it provocative?  Here's the
way I see it:  
	Software has been released under the GPL,  or with explicit terms
that anyone can do almost anything to or with the software,  so long as
the person in question doesn't try to restrict the rights of others.
That's (in essence) the DFSG (yes,  I did read them).
	The KDE CD did exactly that:  they took some free software (Debian
GNU/Linux) and did what they liked with it.  They haven't said "Buy a
Debian/KDE CD" -- they simply found a good distribution (congratulations,
us) and used it to give people a way to run KDE.  I'm happy that Debian's
getting an audience.

	Sorry,  it just seems to me that in this case,  we've put forth a
set of guidelines,  and now we're saying "Gosh,  I almot wish some of
those guidelines didn't apply" -- we'd like to discourage them.  Why?  We
set out to let anyone do anything they wanted ...

> Telling us what to do with our money is a provocative action. It's our
Now,  this I can agree to.  
                     					Will


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