On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 04:05:51PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Joseph" == Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@earthlink.net> writes: > > > >> Actually, I am going to make a stand about our Hypocrisy; > >> anything that you have said also applies to Licenses. You want to > >> throw things like the FHS and others out of main, you have to throw > >> out the DFSG, the social contract, and GPL etc out as well > > Joseph> I don't think they should be, any of them. I don't think the > Joseph> DFSG counts anyway since it's not a license. Licenses are > Joseph> not change-able for a reason. That's IP issues, not free > Joseph> software issues IMO. A standards document should be allowed > Joseph> to be unmodifyable, same with a license. > > Joseph> Am I making any sense? > > To me you are. And, I suppose, you would agree to creating a > verbatim section, and putting all these unmodifiable documents in > there? > I understand it? main contrib verbatim non-free Is this right? verbatim only for standard, law? or documentation too? or software too? I agree with a verbatim distribution only for text (include documentation) but not for code. Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "The Box said 'Windows NT or better', so I installed Debian Linux"
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