On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:32:21PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:01:28PM -0500, David Turner wrote:
> >>> Licensing aside, why would (and should) Debian distribute famous novels? > >>> An installer for famous novels (c.f. gutenbook), sure, but why the > >>> novels themselves? > >> Because people might want them. Because apt-get install > >> alice-in-wonderland would be cool. Better: why not? > > Because it's out of scope of Debian's charter. > Why are we distributing the bible then? > bible-kjv-text - King James Version of the Bible - text and concordance - It's been argued that this particular text is useful as data employed by programs - No one's gotten worked up enough about having *one* such text in the archive to request its removal. Abusing this precedent by uploading dozens of books to the archive is much more likely to result in a response. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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