On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:47, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The DFS_Guidelines_ don't need to hold up in court. Therefore they > > are able to say that source which is unacceptable for modification > > because of lack of documentation, poor programming practices, > > obscure language or any arbitrary criteria you might think of for > > unmaintainability is no service to our users > > They certainly _can_ say that, but I don't think they actually _do_.
I took a look. The DFSG only talk about "the source code". Unqualified. Probably based on the expectation, that every maintainer only packages software he feels able to properly support. I think many people (me first) often forget the greatest plus Debian has over most commercial Software Vendors: No need to pull strings in court and no marketing droids. Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir �ber ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15
