Re: Questions to candidates: what is source?
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:49:26PM +0900, Seo Sanghyeon wrote:
> The Debian Free Software Guidelines states that "The program must
> include source code".
[...]
Your questions point out an interesting legal area which is still
under discussion in large parts of the FOSS world. An common
agreement has not been found and no judicial decree has been
reached in court yet (as far as I know).
Even within Debian there are different camps arguing passional
about it. My job as Debian Project Leader would not be to answer
those questions "ex cathedra" but to get the camps to engage in a
constructive debate where the goal would be to find common ground
and consensus instead of winning an argument. This might best be
started in real life, at e.g. DebConf5. Even without being DPL I
plan to organize a public debate involving interested and
competent people and would like to invite especially Matthew
Garrett and Branden Robinson to participate. (This has has
already been mentioned on IRC some time ago.)
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