Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL
On 3/26/06, Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> If you are distributing both, then the XML file is Transparent and the
> word file is opaque. My point was that the word file is never
> Transparent. I am not saying that the word file can not be
> distributed, but that it is never Transparent.
I found out yesterday that there is an xml format which is a
word format. In Word 2003, use the "Save As..." dialog -- it's
the second option on the drop down list for file formats.
More specifically, "word format" means that Word has a document
object which it serializes into a file. One of the mechanisms it
has for doing so results in an xml file. And, of course, it's perfectly
capable of reading these files, and as far as I know you don't
lose any features of word with this file format.
Plus, of course, you can edit these things with a generic
text editor.
But this brings up another issue -- I don't think we should
accept any such .xml document into Debian main unless
we also have a suitable editor (perhaps open office) to support
editing that specific content. Otherwise, we'd be introducing
a dependency on non-free software (regardless of whether or
not that dependency was explicitly presented in the package
headers).
--
Raul
Reply to: