Re: Final updates for this Python Policy revision
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 14:27 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> Ben Finney schrieb:
> > anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> The policy is under GPL license which is kind of ridiculous to prevent
> >> citing Debian Policy in private talks.
> >
> > Why is it ridiculous? Is it any more ridiculous to put a policy document
> > under GPL than any other document?
>
> Quoting the second paragraph from the copyright notice:
>
> "This manual is free software; you can redistribute it..."
>
> so this *manual* is free *software*. Really?!
>
> For me this wording shows clearly that this license does not fit to
> documentation since it was obviously made for software.
The policy prescribes procedures to be followed by people who package
Python packages for Debian, isn't it so?
Couldn't we then consider it to be software, to be executed by the
people who perform the packaging (to be considered as hardware, for this
purpose alone)?
Now that we put aside the philosophical issues, I'd like to clarify what
can people do and what they cannot do with the policy document?
As long as people can freely copy it, execute it (i.e. build packages
according to its instructions), and modify it - I don't see why it
should matter which license is chosen. It is not as if there are any
commercial uses or whether we care about proprietary&closed derivatives
of the procedures.
--- Omer
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