On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 05:39:37AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:38:29AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Furthermore, any bitmap rendering of a vector drawing has to be > > removed if the vector drawing is not available, and all Postscript > > files without source code have to be removed. This audit is a [Postscript files can be source code; it is a Turing-complete programming language, albeit with lousy support for IO, and we do ship several such programs] > > substantial task. > > Is this GR actually intended to say that source must be available for all > data? I only see it saying that all data in Debian must be Free, which > is what the social contract already said. > > It doesn't seem to actually change anything at all, except to shut up > the people who insist on the old, tired arguments that documentation isn't > software and that the DFSG doesn't apply to documentation. That was the intention, yes. debian-legal has always exercised flexibility in reading the DFSG for non-programs, and will have to continue to do so until it can be suitably amended in a similar fashion (I plan to start things moving on this in the next couple of weeks). "Source" is usually interpreted like the GPL's "preferred form for modification". > If this GR actualy changed anything, and "remain 100% free software" meant > something different than "remain 100% free", then there must be something > in Debian which is not software. I believe that's false. I suspect that's > why this was called an "editorial" change; it doesn't change the meaning > of the social contract, it only clarifies it. Yup. > I don't see how it could affect the release. Was the previous release plan > really based on an argument that "software" does not include firmware and > documentation? I was rather surprised myself by the notion that the release plan had been depending on a loophole in the wording in order to excuse violating the spirit of the SC. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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