On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote: > Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes: > > 6) Documentation for users about usability of packages in non-free > > (IE, non-commercial, non-modifiable, etc.) > > Why restrict this point to non-free?
Because non-free works don't satisfy the DFSG, and have terms that can directly affect their usability by users. Figuring out whether you can actually use a work in non-free is a critical use case for debian/copyright. > I think it's important for users of *all* software to have easy, > predictably-located access to the terms under which they receive it. What's the use case? That's what I'd like to focus on first; what debian/copyright needs to enable people to do, not how it enables people to do it. Don Armstrong -- "Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as have no voices." -- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
