Re: Not inherently free, but inherently non-free?
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Oops. How the hell did I pull that off?
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 06:15:09PM -0400, debian-legal@lists.debian.org wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 11:15:33PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > You asked for DFSG compatibility, which doesn't tell us if it's a free
> > documentation license. I still believe that the survey was very
> > suggestive. It wasn't your intention, but simply the result of your
> > belief that documentation is software, too.
>
> In any event, I believe the recent GR clearly states that, for the
> purposes of the Social Contract, documentation is software. (Otherwise,
> the DFSG would simultaneously have been renamed to the "Debian Free Stuff
> Guidelines".)
>
> That's just my interpretation of the GR. It doesn't seem controversial to
> me, since I don't believe that any interesting or convincing arguments
> have been made that documentation is not software. I suspect we'll disagree
> on this, of course. :)
>
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> Glenn Maynard
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