Re: jquery debate with upstream
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> That was a conscious decision on the part of the project to revise the text
> of the Social Contract. That vote did *not* replace the use of the word
> "program" in DFSG#2 with the word "software". It is incorrect to infer from
> this vote that Debian decided to require source for all non-program works.
As far as I can tell, not modifying the DSFG at the same time was an
oversight. Fixing that mistake was attempted in a later GR but that
was blocked with a narrow margin.
https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_004
The DFSG mentions "program" in other sections too. Does that mean that
we can accept non-programs with licenses that:
Discriminate against fields of endeavour (item 6)?
Don't let Debian pass licenses on to users (item 7)?
Don't apply to entities other than Debian (item 8)?
I definitely can't agree with your interpretation here and think we
should amend the DFSG to replace all uses of the words "software" or
"program" with "work" or similar.
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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