Omer Zak schrieb: > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 14:27 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Ben Finney schrieb: >>> anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> The policy is under GPL license which is kind of ridiculous to prevent >>>> citing Debian Policy in private talks. >>> Why is it ridiculous? Is it any more ridiculous to put a policy document >>> under GPL than any other document? >> Quoting the second paragraph from the copyright notice: >> >> "This manual is free software; you can redistribute it..." >> >> so this *manual* is free *software*. Really?! >> >> For me this wording shows clearly that this license does not fit to >> documentation since it was obviously made for software. > > The policy prescribes procedures to be followed by people who package > Python packages for Debian, isn't it so? > Couldn't we then consider it to be software, to be executed by the > people who perform the packaging (to be considered as hardware, for this > purpose alone)?
I wouldn't go so far and see documentation as software. Apart from that I agree that it is important to clarify what one can do with this documentation (quote, modify, redistribute, etc.) and under which rules this has to happen. For example, when I quote a paragraph of the documentation in an email, do I have to provide a copy of the GPL along with the quote? Because technically I redistribute parts of that work. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org