On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Francesco Poli wrote: > Anyway, whenever some form of a work is the preferred one for > modifications (i.e.: source form), but, at the same time, is > inconvenient to distribute, well, the work is inconvenient to distribute > in a Free manner! This is an unfortunate technical obstacle to freeing > works and should be removed by technology improvements: we should not > surrender and lower our freeness standards in order to accept sourceless > works as if they were Free.
That's not a technical obstacle, that's a "we're stupid to recommend that the author do something horribly inconvenient" obstacle. If the work is inconvenient to distribute free, then we should be telling the author "distributing it free is probably not what you want to do". Besides, the DFSG don't define source code as the preferred form for modification. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
