Re: Rejected Package - Licence question
Frank =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FCster?= <frank@debian.org>
> Well, in that sense most other software licenses cover documentation,
> e.g. the GPL - that was the main point of my statement. But I see no
> license that was specifically designed and worded to apply to
> "documentation but not programs", as many upstream authors seem to
> search.=20
That's because it's damn hard to define which is which and if you're
going to be vague about it, might as well cover all software.
I suspect it would be discriminating against a field of endeavour if
the documentation cannot be incorporated into a program. One of my
favourite quotes again:
"We can't depend for the long run on distinguishing one bitstream from
another in order to figure out which rules apply." -- Eben Moglen,
FSF's general counsel, in Free Software and the Death of Copyright,
First Monday issue 4_8.
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