Bug#987710: Consider adding some helpful links to SC/DFSG page
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I'm aware that I'm walking a fine line, but it came up in a discussion
so I wanted to file the bug for your consideration. To be clear, if
you consider this to need a foundation document change as in [1] then
it clearly isn't worth it and I'd ask you to close this as won't fix.
But if you agree that adding helpful links WITHOUT changing the
wording could be done as a normal change of the web-pages then please
give this a thought.
Suggestions when reading [2]:
- At the top "The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)"
is a link to https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
a few paragraphs later "the document entitled The Debian Free Software
Guidelines" is not a link, but IMHO it should be the same one
- there are some references to "The Debian system" and "Debian" which in
my reading some mean more "the project" and others mean "the components
that make up Debian".
As I'm sure you don't mean the #1 hit on search engines which is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Debian_System
It might be better to throw in some links like
https://www.debian.org/intro/about
And maybe to differntiate
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-debian-archive
- "bug report database" should be a link to https://www.debian.org/Bugs/
- "create distributions containing both the Debian system and other works"
could be a link to https://www.debian.org/derivatives/
Furthermore I think there should be a link to
https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html.
But I list this separately because, while helpful, I'd not know where
to put it without changing the text - and that would clearly put us
into foundation document change land.
[1]: https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-4
[2]: https://www.debian.org/social_contract
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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
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