Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:39:06 +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@debian.org> said:
> El jue, 18-11-2004 a las 14:28 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG escribió:
>> Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@debian.org> writes:
>>
>> > Then, the code in your CPU is also software. Please, hammer it
>> > as it is
>> > not DFSG free. Thanks
>>
>> You have made a common mistake. The fact that I insist that Debian
>> only distribute free software does not mean that I want to destroy
>> everything which is not. My walls are filled with thousands of
>> books, the text of nearly every one of which is non-free. But I'm
>> not about to burn them.
>>
>> I will, however, insist that Debian not distribute them. Or, for
>> that matter, the code inside my CPU.
> But I don't see the point in that you need the right to modify any
> Shakespeare writing to be able to distribute it. Of course I agree
You do, if you want to call what you distribute free. Of
course, you may make the argument that not everything needs to be
free, which I'll counter by an example: I really enjoyed "West Side
Story", which was a blatant rip off of Shakespeares "Romeo and
Juliette"; outlawing such modifications is ... short sighted.
> that documentation for software is different, as it's nice to be
> able to start from the docs of the original source to document your
> changes. But IMHO direct rules applied to software are not always
> good for documentation (as it's demonstrated when you try to apply
> GPL directly to documentation, ... or images, or sounds)
All my documentation is available under the GPL. In any case,
post Sarge everything in main must meet the demands of the DFSG, so I
think this discussion is moot.
manoj
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