On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Olleg Samoylov wrote: > License of documents in gnu-standards restrict modification > documents. And reason easily undestanded, standard can't be called > standard if can be modified by everyone. That's why it's sensible to have a standard signed with a known PGP key so the veracity of the standard can be verified by anyone. The use of licensing mechanisms to do this isn't necessary when there are perfectly valid technical mechanisms to do it. [Furthermore, it's not like anyone who would maliciously modify a standards document would be stopped by copyright...] > IMHO incorrect implement DFSG to any documentation due to DFSG is > "Debian Free _Software_ Guidelines" and designed especially for > software. However restriction of modification documents correlate > with "Integrity of The Author's Source Code" in DFSG. [snip] > Can you resolve such weakness and add "Debian Free Document > Guidelines" to Debian Policy? This has already been discussed ad naseam. Please read through the list archives regarding documentation as software in -legal. (Hint: there are thousands of messages on this very subject itself.) To briefly sumarize[1] the issues facing separating documentation and software: 1) No one has been able to definitively disambiguate software and documentation.[2] 2) No one has put forward a set of freedoms that documentation needs to preserve. 3) No one has set forth a rationale of why some freedoms which we find necessary for software are not necessary for the documentation for that software. Feel free to work at resolving these questions if you have decided that documentation[3] needs fundamentally different freedoms than software. Don Armstrong 1: Inasmuch as I can summarize, since I have rather well known views on this subject, and am not an impartial observer. 2: The only real definition I'm aware of has been very much akin to the USSC definition of pornography: "I know it when I see it." 3: Whatever that is. -- Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming them to crisp is bad behaviour, I have not yet achieved a state of nirvana. -- Manoj Srivastava in 87n04pzhmh.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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