Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4

To: "Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Cc: Debian developers list <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 09:09:19 -0500 (EST)
Message-id: <[🔎] 13920.1039.310928.325868@sonny.econ.queensu.ca>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 199811272253.WAA12658@linda.lfix.co.uk>
References: <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <[🔎] 13918.5337.649051.933932@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <[🔎] 199811272253.WAA12658@linda.lfix.co.uk>

  Oliver> I don't agree with Ian's new restrictions on the DFSG and I don't
  Oliver> like turning it into a legal document.
  Oliver> 
  Oliver> I would like to propose instead the following text, which is the
  Oliver> existing DFSG, verbatim, with a short new preamble and some
  Oliver> exceptions at the end.

Good approach. I like it.

-- 
Linux is not only free; it is, arguably, a better operating system, offering
a degree of stability and an ability to scale up that NT cannot match.
                                             -- The Economist, Oct 3, 1998

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  - From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
- Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4
  - From: "Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>

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