Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian has to pick a definition of free/non-free for itself. It > cannot try to cater to everyone's different definition of free.
Sure, but then they should be honest about it, and not keep software with "non-free" documentation in the main section: that's just encouraging people distributing crippleware with non-free documentation. And they'll point to Debian's treatment of GNU/GFDL as justification. As the prescribed documentation license for all GNU projects according to the GNU maintainer guidelines is the GFDL, it is clear that most GNU software should get moved to non-free, and probably all of it by some time. Since the principal goal for the Debian project is providing free software and they can't consider GNU software free in documented form, they probably should abandon the whole GNU/Linux project and instead try packaging something like BSD/Linux, a Linux kernel with BSD utilities all around. But the current course is pure duplicity. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
