(Please respect MFT) > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:13:39PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > They are out of the scope of the DFSG. They are neither programs nor > > documentation: they are speeches and articles which are logically > > non modifiable without the consent of their author. > > Sorry, you're wrong. The Social Contract states that everything in > Debian must be free, with the DFSG being the guidelines to determine > whether a work is free. This has been discussed at extreme length, > culminating in SC2004-003, which affirmed that everything in Debian > must be free, regardless of whether it's labelled "program", "software", > "documentation", "data", "font", "manifesto", "speech", "article" > or anything else. Streams of bits, regardless of content, must be > freely modifiable, with the sole exception of license texts, or they > can not be in Debian.
The Social Contract needs to be changed then, if it leads to such a silliness. > I don't feel this is an interesting line of debate; you're arguing > as if you missed the thousands of messages leading up to and surrounding > SC2004-003, and I don't feel compelled to repeat those discussions. Yes, please don't bother repeating those pointless discussions. > The Social Contract and the DFSG apply to everything in Debian, not > just the parts that are convenient to you. Just go away and find yourself another sandbox. You don't have any kind of authority upon us. -- Jérôme Marant