Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >>> Architectural plans for a house, shipped in a Debian package, are >>> software. >> >> I'm stunned. So anything in a Debian package is software. With alien I >> can convert a tar.gz into a debian package, so all tar files are >> software. With tar I can create a tar.gz from any file, so all >> electronic data is software? > > Bingo. Debian had this debate last year. There was a giant vote over > it. Then another debate and another vote. "software" is not > "program". Programs are software that happens to be executable. Data > is not executable, but still software.
No, a definition of "software" was never decided upon. The vote was about removing the word "software" in certain places from the DFSG, regardless of its definition. -- For every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you!
