Comment 18 for bug 13050

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:28:12 +0000
From: MJ Ray <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#289856: mdnsresponder: Wrong license

Marco wrote:
> <email address hidden> wrote:
> > [...] the APSL 2.0 is not, in the opinion of many (and AFAICT, according
> >to the consensus of the debian-legal mailing list), a free license under the
> Where "many" in this context should be read as "an handful of people on
> the debian-legal mailing list who invented new rules which are not part
> of the DFSG".

Regardless of what you think about the other points, requiring
non-defence of your own patents seems not to follow DFSG 9. Although
I condemn software patents, I know they do exist in some places.

I suspect it really is "many" and not just debian-legal contributors.
Do you really want to argue that software under licences which try to
affect other pieces of unrelated software meets the DFSG?