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Re: Free non-software stuff and what does it mean. [was Re: General Resolution: Force AMD64 into Sarge]



On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 02:15:20AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:51:41AM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
> > If upstream supplies source in the upstream, as per Andrews definition,
> > then I think that is OK. But if they don't, then that should not
> > constitute violation of DFSG.
> > 
> > We *need* a definition of "program" in the DFSG. This is the only way to
> > fix the ambiguity.
> 
> I think this is a reasonable approach, in principle, as long as the word
> "program" is removed from DFSG#1, #4, #6, #7, #8 and #9--so that it's
> only used in #2.  (s/program/work/ the rest, perhaps.)

Special-casing ELF files is nuts. Why the fuck try to dodge providing
source? What is this supposed to accomplish?

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