On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:34:35AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Not everything that could be useful can reasonably be guaranteed by > > > the social contract. > > Probably, but when it is a usefull act upon a work in main covered by > > the DFSG, it seemingly is guaranteed by the Social Contract. > > Some people probably think it'd be useful if they could take the Linux > kernel in main, rip out a bunch of subsystems, then include it in the > next release of Windows. Unfortunately they can't, and we certainly > don't make any promises that they will be able to. We most assuredly *do* make that promise, and they can. It's just that there are some other constraints they would have to fulfill (like providing the rest of the source) which they probably don't want to. That's DFSG clause 3, "Derived works". -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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