On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 08:26:33AM -0400, Walter Landry wrote: > The Social Contract defines the distribution as being entirely free > software. "copyrighted works distributable in digital form" don't > belong in the distribution.
I'm pretty sure that the social contract is not asking us to avoid distribute copyrighted works distributable in digital form. > > Under the new social contract, he believes this distinction is disallowed, > > because our free software guidelines are declared to be the standard > > for judgment for all works in the debian system. > > > > In other words, before the release of the new social contract, there was > > ambiguity as to which definition of "software" was intended in the DFSG > > -- the release manager picked the most typical definition, and this was > > supported in his opinion by historical practice. > > It was disallowed by the old social contract. There was a clear > consensus, and I'm not the only one saying that [1] [2] [3]. "It"? -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
