Re: Desert island test
Sean Kellogg <skellogg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 February 2008 07:21:27 pm Felipe Augusto van de Wiel
> (faw) wrote:
> > On 27-02-2008 23:13, Sean Kellogg wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 27 February 2008 04:20:56 pm Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > >> So long as you add the rider that some of the debian-legal
> > >> subscribers believe it (and some of the other common "tests")
> > >> are ridiculously contrived and bogus.
> > >
> > > And not grounded in the specific language of the DFSG but rather
> > > a shared aspiration of what the document "ought" to say. I have
> > > never seen an attempt to tie the three tests to specific points
> > > and thus it is impossible to debate and discuss the test
> > > themselves... it has become assumed knowledge.
> >
> > Ahhmm... during NM, candidates must tie DFSG points
> > with the three tests, you can even find debates on -legal
> > about which points each test addresses.
>
> Ahhmm?! I've been subscribed to d-l for around five years now and I
> have never seen anyone tie a test to a DFSG point even though folks
> have asked. In fact, it wasn't until someone posted the wikipedia
> article on the DFSG that I've seen the three tests spelled out "on
> paper".
You just have not been around long enough ;) The desert island test
was first mentioned in 2002 in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/01/msg00010.html
The first time someone tried writing down all of these tests was in Mar 2003
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/03/msg00460.html
The page cited in that email still exists at
http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html
Cheers,
Walter Landry
wlandry@caltech.edu
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