On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:34:54PM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You have turned the DFSG soundly on its head. In a world of > > copyrights, all works are non-free *by default*; it is only if they > > meet certain requirements, as detailed in the DFSG, that we consider > > them free. Are you saying that the WHY-FREE op-ed piece should be > > considered free because the DFSG doesn't say anything about opinion > > pieces? > > _you_ have turned the DFSG on its head by taking something meant for > software and applying it to non software. i've read the DFSG now a > million times and all i can see is references to software and source > code. it doesn't say anything about documentation, nor does it say > anything about being able to modify political manifestos. show me > where in the DFSG there is a mention of anything other than software. > > why should be distribute WHY-FREE? because it is our raison d'être. > with out it debian wouldn't even exist and we wouldn't be having this > conversation. generalizing a little bit, emacs is not just a > text-editor (or mail reader, compiler, oh well, operating system), > emacs is a political statement and as such it should include the > WHY-FREE manifesto.
Okay, here's the deal. We've discussed this 42e69 times before, and we'll do it that many times again, if not more. But I would like to point you to <http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200208/msg00364.html> et seq. I would especially like to point out something that Joe Wreschnig said [0]: My point is that fine, I guess Debian can include non-free non-software. However, it's difficult if not impossible to prove that any given stream of bits is not software. So the only non-free things we can include are proven non-software, like ham sandwiches or desks. I will pay a cash reward to the first person who modifies apt to make it possible to download a desk. ;-) [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200208/msg00385.html -- Brian M. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x560553e7 "Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." --Douglas Adams
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