"Sunnanvind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > aj, tb, it's clear you don't like the proposal, so please come up with > suggestions of your own.
You are saying that because you and Branden want a policy, we *must* have one, and if aj and I are now obliged to write one if we don't like yours? In fact, aj and I both think that we don't need to write any policy, and that things are working just fine already. Still, I posted the sort of policy I would agree to a while ago. Here it is again. Branden didn't like it because it calls for judgment, and apparently he thinks that most Debian developers don't have much judgment. "Some documentation or other matter in Debian packages is sometimes distributed under licenses that do not permit modification or the distribution of modified versions. When these portions are small relative to the size of the package, no harm accrues from distributing them as part of Debian. However, when it comes to actual programs of whatever sort, we continue to insist that modification always be permitted. And, since changes to a program necessitate changes to its associated documentation, any portion of documentation which might need to be changed to correctly describe a change in the program must also permit modification and distribution of modified versions." Thomas
