On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 11:30:11PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Because I think that it is in the interests of Debian to > > distribute even verbatim documents as part of the > > distribtution. Remember, we havbe not even covered teh other sets of > > verbatim documents (personal opinions, stories, amgzines, graphic > > novels). It is not clear why we should necesarily throw it all out of > > our distribution. > > I don't know about you, but I like to be able to point to a debian cd and > say, "You can modify any of the stuff on here to your hearts content, with > no restricton whatsoever. You can use it however you desire. (Well, er, > except those nasty copyright documents themselves.)"
:) Yes, well, this is why I want vendors to ship the non-free stuff on a seperate CD. The point is, you will never be allowed to remopve the copyright notices. For example, you'll never be allowed to make emacs print the Artistic License with C-h C-c [please no clever arguments about chnaging the key layout and so on]. This restrictions protect our freedom, so they are good. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
