Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> José Luis Tallón <jltallon@adv-solutions.net> writes:
> 
> > People, please... ask for a clarification from the FSF or something if
> > necessary, but this "preferred form for modification" only applies to
> > *software* not *data*
> 
> Apparently, Debian has just decided that there is only Software, not
> Programs and Data.  All arguments that tried to show that it makes
> sense to treat some Software differently didn't bear fruit.
> 
> Se basic argument was that we don't have a Popper-like
> Abgrenzungskriterium[1], and therefore we must treat Programs and Data
> in the same way.  I've worked on an Abgrenzungskriterium from time to
> time, but unfortunately without any results so far.

Program: Software which is intended for execution on an actually
	existing interpreter.

Data: Software which is not ~.


Thiemo