Re: Is haskell-doc acceptable in main? (was: Re: Is the GPL free?)
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:04:08 -0700, Bruce Perens wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:58:26PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> > Debian has not required documentation and other text documents to allow
> > modifiaction to be in main.
>
> Barf with a spoon. Is that so?
Yes. See e.g. perlfaq(1p).
Non-modification is defensible in the case of standards, and arguments have
been made that writings are different than software, but this issue
definitely needs to be addressed in full.
Ray
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