On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:56:06PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 05:19:40PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote: > > For Debian to be "100% Free Software", it first must be "100% Software", > > right? > > wrong. > > it means that the SOFTWARE in debian is ALL (i.e. 100%) free software as > defined by the DFSG. it says nothing about the non-software in debian. Right... The Social Contract does not say: Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software and Some Other Things That Aren't Software But Which Are Also Free But Meet a Different Definition Of Free Than That Which Applies to Software, Plus Some Other Stuff That Isn't Free By Any Stretch Of The Imagination But Which We Thought Would Be Nice To Have.[1] [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/12/msg00027.html -- G. Branden Robinson | You are not angry with people when Debian GNU/Linux | you laugh at them. Humor teaches branden@debian.org | them tolerance. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- W. Somerset Maugham
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