Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:21:54AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > "Software" in modern computing is normally interpreted to mean programs;
> > we are apparently not bound by such interpretations in Debian.
>
> It *doesn't help*.
>
> If you interpret it that way, you must conclude that you have to strive to
> remove all non-programs from Debian. Or ignore the text, the spirit,
> *and* the original intent. :-p
The wording is unfortunate. I doubt that the original intent or the spirit
was to exclude non-programs from Debian; that would not produce a useful
result.
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- mdz
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