Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, John Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:41:29 +0000 (UTC), Sune Vuorela
> <nospam@vuorela.dk> wrote:
> >On 2007-09-12, John Kelly <jak@isp2dial.com> wrote:
> >> "Distribution of this memo is unlimited."
> >>
> >> With RFCs available to anyone with a web browser, it's absurd to say
> >> they're non-free, and a waste of time removing them from Debian.
> >
> >eh? whattabout modification? and distribution of modified versions?
>
> This is where it gets absurd.
>
> They're RFCs. They're not code.
>
> If you want to "modify" an RFC, you have to write your own and submit
> it, see?
Which we have always allowed in software, even. It falls under the "publish
it with another name".
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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