Re: Debian Free Documentation Guidelines was: License of old GNU Emacs manual
MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au> wrote:
>> I don't believe that Documentation is similiar enough to Software that
>> we can blindly apply the DFSG.
>
> Please explain what documentation is in debian which is not also software.
> That is conspicuously absent from your summary. I suggest that there is
> no non-software documentation in debian at present and there probably
> never will be. Remember that "software" and "programs" are not synonyms.
We altered the social contract precisely because not everyone agrees
with that statement. I agree that everything in Debian should be held to
the terms of the DFSG, and I agree that software is a better term than
most others to describe non-executable strings of bits. Others disagree.
But that's not an argument we have to have again, because the social
contract no longer includes the word "software" in point 1.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.project@srcf.ucam.org
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