alt Hacker NewsThose clauses exclude those licenses from some very important definitions of free/open-source software. For example they would fail the Desert Island Test for the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
Replies
eru • yesterday at 12:21 AM
I'm not quite sure: if you are on a desert island, how are you running a public facing server?
The Debian project guidelines are not the ultimate arbiter of what is and isn't free software, they are just some of many useful guidelines to consider. Another useful guideline is that the user shall have freedom.