Steve Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > Mathieu > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:30:41AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > > > And do you really think that every software (of your wide definition) > > you can have on computer is part of the Operating System? The goal of > > Debian is to provide an Operating System, isn't it? > > The Social Contract is about producing the "Debian system" and other > works that provide a useful platform for our users. The Operating > System is just part of that work.
I see it as the result of that work. > > So, you recognize that in fact you want every literary works to be > > DFSG-compliant, software or not. > > > > It totally explains why you need a so broad definition of software. > > Yes, wouldn't it be much nicer to live in a world where everything is > free. I agree. But I feel free enough when I can redistribute as I will a political essay from someone else. If I feel a need to edit that essay, I just start writing my own essay, by quoting eventually the original one. And if I must quote almost all the original one, it means that I have no so many things to add and I would just make a commentary about it. I do not see any urgent freedom to protect here, apart the freedom to redistribute a document. Someone can grant anybody to modify his political essays, but I do not think that not giving this right is similar than forbidding anybody to access the code of a program, to modify it and redistribute it. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english