On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:14:40PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
> Hey, Branden, how about another survey, about whether documentation is
> software or not,
I'm not interested in circulating such a survey. Someone else may wish
to, but debian-legal is not an appropriate list for it -- I recommend
debian-project instead.
> and whether documentation is subject to DFSG, or not?
According to clause 1 of the Debian Social Contract[1], everything
("100%") in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution is and must remain Free
Software, and we are compelled to use the Debian Free Software
Guidelines to evaluate whether the things in the Debian GNU/Linux
distribution are Free Software or not.
> Just to kill all those darn trolls once and for all? ;-)
That will never happen. There will always be people willing to
compromise the freedoms of their fellow developers and our users so that
they can enjoy having a particular set of bits in our distribution.
[1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract
--
G. Branden Robinson | Of two competing theories or
Debian GNU/Linux | explanations, all other things
branden@debian.org | being equal, the simpler one is to
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | be preferred. -- Occam's Razor
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