* Raul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050727 18:45]:
On 7/27/05, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uh, I don't? I said that the other guidelines are *applicable* to
non-program works, and *should be applied* to non-program works -- not that,
as presently written, we are obliged to apply
* Francesco Poli:
But if you propose to disable DFSG#2 for non-programs, you have to
propose a criterion to tell programs and non-programs apart.
IOW, you must be able to tell when DFSG#2 must be applied and when it
may be ignored...
It's enough if we are sufficiently confident that such a
On 7/28/05, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Raul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050727 18:45]:
On 7/27/05, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd prefer to approach this issue from a different direction.
The point behind the DFSG is that we need to be able to solve problems
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:20:18 +0200 Florian Weimer wrote:
Personally, I think that we can make this distinction, but actually,
we shouldn't, at least for technical documentation which describes how
a program works. If we change the program, we sometimes need to
change the documentation. If
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:28:23AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:17:35 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote:
I think that clauses 6, 7, and 8 are applicable to documentation and
data as well as to programs, and I think that they're rules that
Debian should follow for everything
On 7/27/05, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uh, I don't? I said that the other guidelines are *applicable* to
non-program works, and *should be applied* to non-program works -- not that,
as presently written, we are obliged to apply them to non-program works.
I'd prefer to approach
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:52:15 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:28:23AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
I fail to understand how you justify your reading of program as
program in DFSG#2 while you read program as work in the other
guidelines at the same time.
Uh, I
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:17:35 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote:
I think that clauses 6, 7, and 8 are applicable to documentation and
data as well as to programs, and I think that they're rules that
Debian should follow for everything we distribute.
I think that clause 2 is *not* clearly applicable
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:28:23 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:
[some hopefully useful contributions to the discussion, but with *wrong*
Mail-Followup-To:]
Please, ignore the wrong Mail-Followup-To: set in the my previous
message.
I forgot to disable it! :-(
I really really apologize.
Sylpheed
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