On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:41:11 +0100 Florian Weimer wrote: > * Steve McIntyre: > > > Ben Finney wrote: > > >>Its requirement for the modifier's name to be recorded is also a > >>concern. I think the “Dissident” test is violated by this. > > > > Which means nothing; it has no solid grounding in the DFSG. > > We need to keep track of the copyright situation of a work, otherwise > there is no way to know if we'll be able to actually keep our promise > of DFSG-freeness. This rules out anonymous contributions to a certain > extent. I respectfully disagree: we need to keep track of the copyright situation, not of the identity of the copyright holder. Many copyright laws recognize the status of pseudonymous and even anonymous works. The Berne Convention has provisions for those kinds of works: article 7 paragraph (3) http://wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html#P127_22000 article 15 paragraph (3) http://wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html#P192_37445 In my own personal opinion, *as long as the DFSG-freeness of the work is clear*, we should not reject something *just because* it is a pseudonymous or anonymous work. Of course, the conclusion is different, *whenever the work does not clearly comply with the DFSG*: in that case, a pseudonymous or anonymous work should be treated exactly as a problematic work whose copyright holder is (or has become) unreachable... Back to the initial topic: I personally think that a license which forces me to disclose my own identity in order to distribute a file modified by me fails DFSG#1, since being forced to disclose one's own identity can be a fee. A more detailed explanation of this issue (found in another license) can be read in http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/05/msg00015.html -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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