Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Quoting Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>:

> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 11:18, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> 
> > No, no, no! You don't get it. There may be a majority among the
> > debian-legal zealots, but we need a consensus among Debian as a
> > whole (which means voting of course).
> > 
> mailto:debian-legal-request@lists.debian.org?subject=subscribe
> 
> > We musn't let the bigots decide for us! ;-)
> > 
>
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint-discuss/2000/debian-newmaint-discuss-200009/msg00086.html>
> 
> 	"Jerome demonstrated a clear understanding of the Social
> 	 Contract and the Debian Free Software Guidelines."
> 
> Perhaps you would care to re-read the Social Contract and DFSG?  Your
> understanding seems to have wavered.

Dear Scott,

Thanks for feeding the troll !
I have a clear understanding of the DFSG but it hasn't been written
anywere that documentation is software. Nobody managed to convince
me after many discussions on debian-legal.
I tend to agree with John Goerzen, see "Inconsistencies in our approach"
thread.

Branden's survey is misleading and assumes that documentation is
software. It is unfair and doesn't count. 

-- 
Jérôme Marant