[Committee-d] Minutes from yesterday's meeting

[David Turner]

Here are some notes from yesterday's meeting.   There's still plenty to
discuss next week -- the new anti-DRM sections, etc.

Attendees

Mako Hill
Seth Schoen
David Rickerby
[David Turner]
Don Armstrong
[Richard Fontana]
Masayuki Hatta


On section 7(d)(4): Everyone wants the last four words gone.  Other
than that, the new text is a great improvement.  There is still a
concern that it might allow non-free terms to sneak in.  Specifically,
retaining the freedom to modify the means (if not the ends) seems
important to Mako and Don.  One fix (contemplated for draft-2, but
perhaps not adequately advocated) is to make 7d4 reference section 6.
Mako and Don will write this up as a comment (issue), which hopefully
will cause changes in Draft 3.

Discussion of 6b1: is it really necessary?  Is it a bad thing?  Don
points out that it does make things slightly harder for people with no
net access if there is no service like on-disk.com.  Mako notes that
at most 1 person of millions of CD distributees used the Ubuntu offer;
the rest just downloaded code.

Masayuki Hatta will be at the 4th conference in Bangalore.
-- 
-David Turner
GPL Compliance Engineer
Free Software Foundation