[Followups set.] On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:58:30AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Branden's survey is misleading and assumes that documentation is > software. It is unfair and doesn't count. No, my survey is narrowly scoped. It is not the job of the debian-legal mailing list, as I understand it, to distinguish between "documentation" and "software" for the rest of the Project, nor -- more to the point -- to manufacture and apply "Debian Free Documentation Guidelines" when none have been proposed or ratified by the Project. The role of the debian-legal mailing list is to formulate, as best it can, recommendations on the legal issues to the rest of the Project, and have discussions of legal issues relevant to Debian that are more germane on that list than any other. The Social Contract[1] says that Debian "will remain 100% Free Software", and that the Debian Free Software Guidelines shall be a tool that we use to for determining whether something in the Debian distribution is Free Software or not. Debian Developers have pledged to act to uphold the Social Contract and DFSG. If you want to change them, you know the process. But do not attempt to subvert them by attempting to persuade people that clause 1 of the Social Contract says things it obviously does not. Whether "documentation is software", whether we need fewer freedoms for "documentation" than we do for "software", and whether and how we shall amend the Debian Social Contract are questions for debian-project or debian-vote, not debian-legal. [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract -- G. Branden Robinson | It is the responsibility of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectuals to tell the truth and branden@debian.org | expose lies. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Noam Chomsky
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