Re: DFSG is not suitable for things other than software

2008-05-23 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 22 May 2008 09:55:49 +1000 Ben Finney wrote: > All digitally-stored, computer-accessible information is software, as > distinct from the hardware that contains it. I definitely agree. I even wrote an essay on the meaning of the term "software": http://frx.netsons.org/essays/softfrdm/whati

Re: DFSG is not suitable for things other than software

2008-05-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 21 mai 2008 à 16:12 -0700, Yuhong Bao a écrit : > DFSG is not suitable for, and should not be applied to, things other than > software. I see dead horses. People beat them. They don’t know they are dead. They only see what they want to see. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. L

Re: DFSG is not suitable for things other than software

2008-05-21 Thread Ben Finney
"Yuhong Bao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DFSG is not suitable for, and should not be applied to, things other > than software. Agreed. It's called the "Debian Free Software Guidelines" and is only intended for software. This includes anything distributed as part of Debian. > For docs there sho

DFSG is not suitable for things other than software

2008-05-21 Thread Yuhong Bao
DFSG is not suitable for, and should not be applied to, things other than software. For docs there should be a separate DFDG, and even GNU don't care about free art and trademarks. Solving this problem would also help solve the GFDL "non-free" doc problem that caused some GFDL docs to go into n