On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:19:11AM -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 12:29 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > I remain unconvinced that the freedoms required for documentation are > > the same freedoms required for software. I think the best way to fix > > the current situation is to propose the Debian Free Documentation > > Guidelines and modify the SC appropriately. More on this when I have > > a first draft. > > Don't forget to do the Debian Free Images Guidelines, the Debian Free > Sounds Guidelines, the Debian Free Music Guidelines, the Debian Free > Database Guidelines and the Debian Free Video Guidelines. Debian uses > all these types of content for games, Web applications, educational > stuff, desktop themes and backgrounds, dot dot dot. > > Not all non-program software is documentation, after all. And not all > documentation is plain text.
I think you're being sarcastic, but I do think that we probably need a Debian Free Images Guidelines document since there is at least some disagreement around what constitutes a free image. Here's a recent one between Matthew Garrett and Andrew Suffield: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/03/msg00024.html However, there is no pressing need for one, so it's sufficient to come up with a DFDocG for now. Or is your sarcasm aimed at making me realise that what we really need is a Debian Free Data Guidelines document? I really wish you'd been a bit more constructive. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
