Re: suggestion: DFDG - Debian Free Documentation Guidelines [was: Discussion - non-free software removal]
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:11:04PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> 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.
What useful purpose are you suggesting which is discriminated against by
this license?
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- mdz
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