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Re: "Social Contract" [anti-trust]

> > While respecting the copyright and license terms of each component of the
> > Debian distribution, we claim ownership of the distribution as a whole
> > and reserve the right to restrict its use by any party which damages
> > the Project's image or its goals, as decided by us.
> > In particular, we will not allow Debian-based distributions which contain
> > proprietary enhancements to an important part of Debian.
> 
> I don't like this so far - after everything else we say about freedom
> it would be shooting ourselves in the foot. This topic has been argued
> to death on comp.os.linux.advocacy - my personal take is that it does
> not matter if someone derives a system with lots of non-free stuff as
> long as there continues to be a free system and the possibility of
> competition.
> 
> How do others feel?

I agree.

I don't think we would be allowed to make this sort of restriction under the GPL, since by using GPL'ed software, we agree to pass on equivalent rights to our users.

Also, if a corporate decided to market Debian-for-cash, their income would rely to some extent on the continued existance of Debian.  They might even decide to tithe a fraction of their profits into the project :-)

I think the idea that the freeware world could be subject to a hostile takeover is paranoia.  There seems to be some form of evolutionary pressure towards freeware,  since it manages to flourish in an environment where the odds are stacked against it, the resources of commerce being infintely more in financial terms.

Cheers, Phil.



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