Il dom, 2002-04-07 alle 19:12, Joe Wreschnig ha scritto: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 06:14, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > > people, i just want to remember you that DFSG stands for debian free > > SOFTWARE guidelines. documentation is *not* software > > Unfortunately this is becoming less true. CSS contains statements for > content generation and counting variables. Is this a program? I'm not > sure, but it's definitely not just a document anymore. XSLT can be > included as "documentation" (and probably is in a lot of places, in or > outside of Debian), and XSLT is Turing-complete. Where does the line get > drawn? Is it possible to draw one? documentation != document. XSLT is cleary a program and s stylesheet should go under a code license. but a manual about programming in XSLT is definitely documentation and should be treated in a different way. > IMO, an FDL-licensed document with invariant sections is non-free. As a > user of Debian, I'd like to know that they're not installed on my system > if I'm only using packages from main. IYO. IMHO they *are* free. i explain why: if i write a 300 pages book about something and 2 pages about my motivations, greetings to people that helped me, etc. i want you to fix the 300 pages of technical stuff but i don't see why you should the 'feelings' i put in that 2 pages. you're *free* to adapt the document to your liking and even add some comments (invariant) criticizing my own, but litterature (even technical one) is much different from code. federico -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact fog@debian.org INIT.D Developer fog@initd.org 99.99999999999999999999% still isn't 100% but sometimes suffice. -- Me
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