[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#391935: Bug#391935: Bug #391935: Re: The answer from Citrix & Xen.org

[paddy at panici.net]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:33:22PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > Any free/community use can do whatever it wants, quite literally.  
> > Any commercial distribution that wishes to call itself Xen must be 
> > compatible with other Xen branded commercial offerings, otherwise 
> > the commercial distribution is not Xen.   This is determined by the 
> > FIT test.
> 
> If ???compatible with ?????? can be ???determined by the FIT test??? without the 
> prospective redistributor ever needing to contact another particular 
> party, this would seem to me to satisfy the DFSG.
> 
> If, on the other hand, such compatibility requires some kind of 
> interaction with a particular party (e.g. to get the FIT test, 
> register for compatibility, confirm the test, or otherwise) then this 
> is a ???phone home??? restriction on redistribution.
> 
> A useful test is the ???dissident??? test: can someone who wishes to 
> remain anonymous manage to determine whether their commercial 
> redistribution is permitted?
> 
> Another useful test is the ???desert island??? test: can someone who is 
> isolated from any arbitrary portion of the larger world, and has 
> *only* the work in question (the Xen code base), nevertheless modify 
> and redistribute the work commercially to others in their circle, 
> knowing that they are complying with the applicable licenses?
> 
> I guess in both those instances, the redistributor could simply rename 
> the work to be on the safe side. So long as this option remains 
> available I guess the combination is DFSG-free.

Will the FIT test be DFSG free ?

Regards,
Paddy
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