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Re: Why I don't share Manojs fears.



On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 08:14:34AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
> >  >> 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.

I don't see the point of a verbatim dist..  Perhaps a verbatim section in
main...?

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