Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#1415 61: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?soft ware in?= main)

2002-04-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:38:45AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:17:48PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Excerpting is allowed by copyright law under the fair use principle, and > > > one need not accept any license governing a work to exercise t

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
Anthony Towns writes: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:17:48PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Excerpting is allowed by copyright law under the fair use principle, and > > one need not accept any license governing a work to exercise that right > > to fair use. > > Australia, for example, doesn't ha

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:52:21AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:32:16PM -0700, Mark Rafn wrote: > > I'm not certain I agree. Point one of the social contract is "Debian Will > > Remain 100% Free Software". The obvious reading of this is that anything > > that is not

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:40:49AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > One of the reasons that I spoke up is that there seem to be a lot of > fundamentalists among us: people who refuse to consider that "the > written wisdom handed down from the ancients" might be inaccurate as > received. Well, you're t

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:32:16PM -0700, Mark Rafn wrote: > I'm not certain I agree. Point one of the social contract is "Debian Will > Remain 100% Free Software". The obvious reading of this is that anything > that is not free software cannot be in Debian. I tend to doubt that *either* was

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-10 Thread Jeff Licquia
[References broken; I just saw this in the archive. Anyone know why repeated requests to subscribe to debian-legal aren't working?] Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:36:15AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > I don't find such arguments very interesting, though. It's certainly > >