Re: Proposed: Debian's Five Freedoms for Free Works
Joachim Breitner <debian@joachim-breitner.de>:
> "Unrestricted access to all not-common elements to produce the final
> product is a precondition for this".
>
> This would require to publish the code, the Makefiles, any unpublic
> compiler patches, maybe some UML files that are needed, while elemtents
> like make, gcc and similar do not have to be distributed by the author.
The underlying idea is that as far as possible nobody should be in a
privileged position for making modifications, so all relevant data and
information has to be made conveniently available.
A word like "convenient" might be necessary to prevent some miscriant
distribing the relevant code hidden in a CD full of broken versions of
the same code with no README in sight, thus making it almost useless.
Edmund
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