* Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 12.VI.2003 at 16:21 Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > The Free Software Foundation promulgates, and the Debian Project > > generally accepts, four essential freedoms as defining "Free > > Software". > > > > The following is an enumeration of freedoms intended to apply to > > non-public-domain works in general. > > I'd like to mention here that FSF talks about free software and free > documentation and not about free works. It is questionable whether we > have to require these freedoms from works that are not software, nor > documentation. > > For our Debian distribution the difference is not much important as we > distribute only software and documentation. Nevertheless there is a > great philosophical difference. Do we start promoting philosophical > ideas that are not directly related to our own work? I doubt there > will be any benefit if we start doing this.
as the world progresses more and more into the realm of 'multimedia' (hehe) we will see, i think, that debian will be distributing works not describable as software or documentation: image files, music, animations, etc, etc, etc. requiring that any such works be free is a very large step to take, and one that i feel is worth taking. i've recently been reading http://www.dreamsongs.com/MobSoftware.html, which has several interesting points on similar lines (but is mostly OT for this discussion). iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -St. Augustine
