Charles Iliya Krempeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 10:00, Michael Stutz wrote: > > Debian might begin officially permitting inclusion of works you can't > > entirely modify in its "free" tree. > > This could cause a fork in the Debian project. (I think that would > be bad.)
Me too; idea's offered only for its speculative value, if any. Although if it were to come to that to keep the non-free stuff out, I would give the effort my support. This is one of the freedoms you should get with copylefted anything -- the freedom to take it in whole or in part and do your own thing with it. Even a fork for demonstrative purposes only, or for any purpose you want ... > Our (software) community already has it partisanship amoung > free (and in freedom) software advocates and open source software > advocates. But even in both of these camps, there is still > disagreement when it comes to "content" -- the non-software stuff. Yes, even as a software program is equally "content" as much as anything else is. It seems that the working position by both "free software" and "open source" camps right now is that only software and its manuals will remain their chartered concern, and not anything else. But it's not so good to see this non-free "anything else" start to appear in Debian.
