On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:59:41AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > On Nov 13, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote: > >> I think the best reason to ask or require contributors to licenses > >> their papers in a DFSG form is so that Debian can distribute the > >> papers as part of Debian. > > I think this is an awful reason, considering that Debian already > > contains too many non-software packages. > I'm sorry, I was under the impression that every package in Debian was > software. Are you confusing software and computer programs? In case you hadn't noticed, for the Debian project's purposes software is a synonym for computer programs; if it weren't the reversion of the social contract would have had no effect on the "non-free documentation in main" question. Indeed, the secretary refused to allow a GR proposal to revert that policy without limiting the social contract to talking about free "software". HTH, HAND! Cheers, aj
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