Re: Final updates for this Python Policy revision
Omer Zak schrieb:
> 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)?
I wouldn't go so far and see documentation as software. Apart from that
I agree that it is important to clarify what one can do with this
documentation (quote, modify, redistribute, etc.) and under which rules
this has to happen. For example, when I quote a paragraph of the
documentation in an email, do I have to provide a copy of the GPL along
with the quote? Because technically I redistribute parts of that work.
Cheers,
Bastian
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