I begin undestand debian community (comments to FAQ)

2005-04-20 Thread Olleg Samoylov 
Hi, all.
I am newbie and begin undestand debian community only now. Excuse me 
for previous questions.

The matter looked simle. Exists several documentation of standarts in 
format plain/text with license like Permission is granted to distribute 
verbatim copies. Documents are useful and some people want to see they 
in main section. The license mostly conform DFSG section Integrity of 
The Author's Source Code except paragraph The license must explicitly 
permit distribution of software built from modified source code..

DFSG primary was developed for software and not adequate to text 
documents, which not needed to be builded. Simplest way is make obvious 
change If software must be builded to be used, then the license must 
explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source 
code.. Thats all, almost happy.

But what do debian community? Debate what is freedom? and what is 
not freedom?. Write faq, guidelines, howto and other bureaucratic 
documents about freedom.

Yes, you are free to do this.
But. You must undestand and keep in mind. For normal people (not 
specialized in freedom) things, such as putting gnu-standarts to 
non-free, always looked very strange (said softly).

Good luck
--
Olleg Samoylov


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Re: I begin undestand debian community (comments to FAQ)

2005-04-20 Thread Martin Dickopp 
Olleg Samoylov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 DFSG primary was developed for software and not adequate to text
 documents, which not needed to be builded.

That's wrong, Bruce Perens intended the DFSG to apply to software and
documentation alike when he designed them. See his clarification here:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/08/msg00690.html

Martin


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Re: I begin undestand debian community (comments to FAQ)

2005-04-20 Thread Glenn Maynard 
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:44:04PM +0400, Olleg Samoylov wrote:
 DFSG primary was developed for software and not adequate to text 
 documents, which not needed to be builded.

The DFSG was developed to be a standard of freedom.  It's just as
applicable to documentation as it is for programs (and fonts, and
graphics, and sounds).  Permission to modify is critical for free
documentation.  Nothing that can't be modified, adapted, and reused
is free.

-- 
Glenn Maynard


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Re: I begin undestand debian community (comments to FAQ)

2005-04-20 Thread Raul Miller 
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:44:04PM +0400, Olleg Samoylov wrote:
 But. You must undestand and keep in mind. For normal people (not 
 specialized in freedom) things, such as putting gnu-standarts to 
 non-free, always looked very strange (said softly).

Keep in mind that normal people can install and use whatever they want.

Why should debian try to maintain a document that debian doesn't have
permission to maintain?

-- 
Raul


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