On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:26:16PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > "Some documentation or other matter in Debian packages is sometimes > distributed under licenses that do not permit modification or the > distribution of modified versions. When these portions are small > relative to the size of the package, no harm accrues from distributing > them as part of Debian. However, when it comes to actual programs of > whatever sort, we continue to insist that modification always be > permitted. And, since changes to a program necessitate changes to its > associated documentation, any portion of documentation which might > need to be changed to correctly describe a change in the program must > also permit modification and distribution of modified versions." There is no justification in the DFSG or the Social Contract from having separate standards for "software" and "documentation". That was a flaw in my original proposal that I have corrected in the revised version. -- G. Branden Robinson | You live and learn. Debian GNU/Linux | Or you don't live long. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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