Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If it's not *Software* then either, > > 1) We must treat it as such, or; > 2) We have no mandate to deal with it at all.
We don't need a mandate. The US Congress is (theoretically) limited to the enumerated powers given in the US Constitution, but that's a unique case. The first clause does not mean "everything in Debian is free software"--how could it? We all agree that much that is in Debian is not software. It says, if you want a literal reading, that all the software in Debian is free. It leaves unstated what the policy is for things other than software. Some such things (for example, the official Debian logo) are quite tightly restricted, for reasonable reasons. But it's becoming clear to me that there are only two people who think we even need to worry about this at all. So I propose that the rest of us simply not bother any further. Or, Branden, perhaps you could write a proposal that isn't you more-or-less dictating what the world must be!
