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free for whom ?free for whom ?Posted May 19, 2004 10:38 UTC (Wed) by copsewood (subscriber, #199)In reply to: Debian Weekly News 2004/20 by piman Parent article: Debian Weekly News 2004/20 Without taking a wider/longer and more balanced view, arguments about the respective merits of entirely reasonable but potentially incompatible license requirements for something to be considered "free" by different user groups are likely to descend into pharasaical legalism. Freedom for one person is not neccessarily exactly the same as freedom for someone else. For example, there is a potential conflict between: a. the entirely sensible business requirement that all the originators be identifiable to reduce the risk of copyright violation (freedom from risk of civil lawsuit) and b. the equally sensible requirement for distributors of politically sensitive software that originators are not required to be identifiable, when some of these may live or travel through repressive regimes which will imprison them for being originators of software these regimes disapprove of (freedom from risk of violation of human rights). It would be unfortunate for most of us if the Debian project as a whole were to be unnaturally contstrained by this kind of conflict over minor details.
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