Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I agree. I also say it applies to licenses as well. If not, > please provide reasons (which I shall turn around and use for > standards, then).
In an ideal world it'd apply to licenses. We don't live in that world and if we insited on requiring this anyway, debian would not be a usable distribution (because it would contain ~ 0 packages). Insiting on this for standards does not harm the usability of debian to the same degree. -- see shy jo
