Author: tille
Date: 2010-12-09 21:07:30 +0000 (Thu, 09 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5570
Modified:
trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
Log:
Alternative explanation for Debian Policy (as comment)
Modified: trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
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--- trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
2010-12-09 21:04:43 UTC (rev 5569)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
2010-12-09 21:07:30 UTC (rev 5570)
@@ -192,22 +192,19 @@
Policy and the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
-%\subsubsection{Debian Policy}
-%
-%\marginpar{the LSB is contraproductive in this context, really}
-%
-%To a certain degree all GNU/Linux distributions are similar.
-%The \printurl{www.linuxbase.org/}{Linux Standard Base}
-%(LSB)\cite{lsb} is an attempt to develop and promote a set of
-%standards aiming to further increase compatibility among Linux distributions,
-%thereby enabling software applications to run on any compliant system.
-%The very essence of a particular distribution is its {\itshape policy
-% document\/}.
+\subsubsection{Debian Free Software Guidelines and Debian Policy}
-\subsubsection{Debian Free Software Guidelines adn Debian Policy}
+%The Debian Policy describes the structure and contents of the Debian
+%archive and several design issues of the operating system, as well as
+%technical requirements that each package must satisfy to be included
+%in the distribution. It makes sure that all different kinds of Free
+%Software can coexist on a Debian system. The conformance of a package
+%with Debian Policy can be checked using the program \package{lintian}.
Free or not free - Debian has a collection of conditions referred
-to as the Debian Free Software Guidelines that allow the distinction
+to as the
+\printurl{http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines}{Debian
+ Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)} that allow the distinction
between Free, distributable as non-free and not distributable.
The most notable of these rules are that software must be allowed
to be modified, that those modifications be allowed to be redistributed
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