Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

[Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:55:57 +0100 (CET), Xavier Roche <roche@httrack.com> said:

> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
>> > Fonts or documentations are not softwares, for god's sake!
>> everything that is not hardware is software

> So a cat is a software, or a hardware ? Do I have to provide the
> sources (the DNA full sequence) if I want to give a kitten to someone,
> following the "free" spirit ? :p

cat is software: (though I don't know what DNA or kittens have to do with
anything)

# man cat

CAT(1)                           User Commands                          CAT(1)

NAME
       cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output

SYNOPSIS
       cat [OPTION] [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
       Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.
...


(and yes, the sources are available)

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