On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 06:02:25PM -0400, Marty wrote:Glenn Maynard wrote: > http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_003 > > "1. Debian will remain 100% free > > We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is "free" > in the document entitled "The Debian Free Software Guidelines". We > promise that the Debian system and all its components will be free > according to these guidelines. We will support people who create or > use both free and non-free works on Debian. We will never make the > system require the use of a non-free component."
I accept this vote regarding "Free Software," but I don't accept your implicit re-definition of the word "software" to include documentation.
The definition of the word "software" is irrelevant. The SC, above, does not care about the definition of "software"; it very explicitly refers to "works". This change was explicit and intentional, for exactly this purpose--so people such as yourself might stop trying to dictionary-lawyer documentation around the DFSG.
Who's playing the legalistic word games here? The licenses are software licenses. You're the one trying to spin these words into something they don't say. I just wrote that if it were explicity spelled out that everything is equated to software, as a matter of policy, it would remove most of my objections. Why is that so unreasonable?
(This really isn't up for debate; while there are a couple other people claiming things like "we were tricked!",
Oh? I can't imagine why. LOL
you're the only person I see
confused about the above text, so I'm not going to waste further time trying to convince you. It's very simple: everything in Debian is clearly a Work; everything in Debian must be Free; and the DFSG is used to determine whether a work is Free.)
I get it already, everything is "software" in Debian and that issue is simply not up for debate or vote. (Some people on your side are just more direct about it.)
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