Re: changes and standards documents
Hi,
>>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
Marcus> No offense taken. I think this indeed needs to be adressed, but only to give
Marcus> you a short idea why I think that this is important:
Marcus> a) Without documentation, you can't use the software.
Marcus> b) Documentation and software are often integrated, for
Marcus> example in context help system.
Marcus> c) Source code documentation (for libraries, for example),
Marcus> are often directly written in the source code and
Marcus> automatically generated.
Marcus> d) Although you choose to ignore it completely --- I think
Marcus> *all points* of the dfsg apply to documents for the *same
Marcus> reasons*. The points have to be interpreted slightly
Marcus> different. I put my personal interpretation in my posting
Marcus> and in the web (known adress).
Fantastic. I agree -- as far as these reasons apply to
documentation of software. And no further. I have already said,
software docuemtnation needs be under tha same licence as the
software it self. Why are you belabouring what we have already agreed
upon?
Marcus> Although I'm not really offended, I'm a bit peeved about the
Marcus> fact that you choose to ignore all my reasonings, and the
Marcus> excellent reasonings given by other people on this list, and
Marcus> later tell me that I don't provide them. This will only lead
Marcus> to a point where I think that you try to make us tired. At
Marcus> the moment there is no reason to look at it this way, though,
Marcus> as the discussion is still moving forward.
And I am peeved by the fact that you do not listen. I have
agreed to the DFSG for Software documentation too. (I should have
stressed that in my last message).
You have not covered anything beyonnd the software+its
documentation.
None of the reasons above apply to non-software-documentation
documents. Stop arguing points we have already agreed on, and lets
get a move on trying to decide where we stand on things like FSSTND
and the FHS.
manoj
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