On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 20:43, Barak Pearlmutter wrote: > That is not my position! As I hope you would know. I would never > close my eyes to a DFSG problem. All our software must be free: > modifiable etc. That is a given. > > The items under discussion are not "software" in the usual sense of > the term. They're little bits of history and such, like the imaginary > sister-cancer-email README file or /usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/WHY-FREE.
Please, let's not have this debate again! It has been argued to death and beyond on this list in the various GFDL threads. I believe there is a rough consensus (though not unamity, obviously) that Social Contract 1 says that the DFSG applies to everything in main.
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