Re: Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 08:1 6:28 +0100 (CET), Peter Karlsson
<peter@softwolves.pp.se> said:
> MJ Ray:
>> I suggest you review some of the messages recently sent to
>> debian-legal,
> I don't read debian-legal, but I've read some of the messages
> referenced from DWN. I don't agree.
>> including the one where Bruce Perens clarified that the DFSG were
>> written to apply to everything in debian
> Yeah, I saw that one. This means that we cannot include stuff like
> software licenses in Debian, which in turn means that we cannot
> really distributed Debian itself. Thus it's a void argument.
Amazing. Faced with a conundrum, you assume that that people
saying so must be dumb, and refuse to investigate further to see
where the fallacy lies.
>> if you do not consider these things software, they are easily shown
>> to not be able to be part of Debian without considering DFSG.
> That claim is about as absurd as claiming a logotype a piece of
> software...
Is it hardware, then? Or wetware?
manoj
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