Re: What RMS says about standards (was: [rms@gnu.org: Re: Questions regarding free documentation.]
Hi,
>>"Raul" == Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:
Raul> Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:
>> Unless we decide to define ``verbatim'' to be ``part of Debian'' :-)
Raul> Why bother?
Because I think that it is in the interests of Debian to
distribute even verbatim documents as part of the
distribtution. Remember, we havbe not even covered teh other sets of
verbatim documents (personal opinions, stories, amgzines, graphic
novels). It is not clear why we should necesarily throw it all out of
our distribution.
Raul> We don't define contrib as "part of Debian", but a cdrom set isn't an
Raul> official cdrom set if it doesn't include contrib.
Because the contrib area contains programs that depend on
stuff we think are detrimental to the community. (Clear and present
danger, so to say). I fail to see how a magazine that depends on
layout and content and does not want to play with mutability is
dangerous.
manoj
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