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Re: A license needed for authentic/consistency purposes



On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 09:16:28AM +0200, moayyad sadi wrote:
> > > I'm thinking of a license just like GPL but the this extra term:
> > > * degrading authentication procedures IS NOT PERMITTED,
> > > inauthentic (or impure or inconsistent) software as defined by the
> > > original author or
> > > according to original software checking procedure (GPG) should always
> > > appear as impure or inconsistent in the derived work.
> >
> > This won't be a free license as soon as some kind of modification is
> > prohibited. It is the same with limitation of use ("legal").
> >
> it's not prohibited because "appear as impure or inconsistent in the
> derived work."
> does not mean not allowed to be distributed
> 
> so it's free because it's only about assurance of consistency
> and because I added another term that ALLOW distributing
> inauthentic/impure/... software
> it's only a mark, but moved from changelog to the title

I'd ask on debian legal.

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