Re: suggestion: DFDG - Debian Free Documentation Guidelines [was: Discussion - non-free software removal]
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
> This kind of modification is not useful for standards documents, which are
> meant to provide a sufficiently robust description to facilitate the
> development of interoperable implementations, and not to document software.
> If you modify a piece of software which implements a standard, you do not
> make corresponding modifications to the standards document.
This assumes that the only purpose of a standards document is to
describe the standardized practice. This is incorrect.
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