Re: Goals of debian/copyright
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> writes:
> > 6) Documentation for users about usability of packages in non-free
> > (IE, non-commercial, non-modifiable, etc.)
>
> Why restrict this point to non-free?
Because non-free works don't satisfy the DFSG, and have terms that can
directly affect their usability by users. Figuring out whether you can
actually use a work in non-free is a critical use case for
debian/copyright.
> I think it's important for users of *all* software to have easy,
> predictably-located access to the terms under which they receive it.
What's the use case? That's what I'd like to focus on first; what
debian/copyright needs to enable people to do, not how it enables
people to do it.
Don Armstrong
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"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak
up for them as have no voices."
-- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227
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