On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:24:56AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:43:15PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > > [ redacted because it pointlessly appeared on debian-private ] > > > > (Permission to forward my text below to any one/list that people might > choose is hereby given.) > > We have a choice before us. Either we are super-strict about what > goes into the main debian pool, in which case more and more stuff will > end up in non-free (and people will take non-free less seriously), or > we become pragmatists, and bend the DFSG, or make the DFSG more > accomodating, in which case it could be argued that we will be taking > the DFSG more seriously. [snip] Or we can take what is behind Door number 3! We wrote the Debian /Free Software/ Guidelines, there isn't anything stopping us from creating the Debian /Free Documentation/ Guidelines. I don't believe that Documentation is similiar enough to Software that we can blindly apply the DFSG. But let us see what the consensus is; if there is one the DFDG will be exactly equivalent to the DFSG (it'd be a surprise though). As some first thoughts, can we agree that: - may be treated as software any Documentation which is explicitly under a Software licence that we have already determined to be DFSG okay is likewise DFDG okay - free redistribution no restrictions on who can redistribute. no royalties or fees required. - availability of 'preferred editing form' If AsciiDoc, then the source should be available so that once the US (or the rest of the world) switches to A4 (or Letter) things can be appropriately regenerated for the new paper size. (for example). - no discrimination No discrimination against specific people or groups of people. Or people who labour in a specific field or type of organisation. - licence is not specific to Debian The same licence should apply whether or not the documenation is part of Debian. There are many more contentious points that we ought to be able to enumerate as we did in while creating the DFSG. I shall try to post a summary, frequently, of guidelines raised to keep discussion progressing[1]. Thanks, Anand [1]: If you'd like to help with that, please let me know. -- linux.conf.au 2005 - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - Birthplace of Tux April 18th to 23rd - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - LINUX Canberra, Australia - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - Get bitten!
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