Jim Penny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is straying terribly far from field, but are you saying that it is > morally correct that the debian project modify standards without > permission of the standards body? Or that it is morally correct to > incorporate (portions of) other programs in your work unconditiontally > and without permission of the original creators? Are you saying that if > the FSF brings a suit alleging GPL violation, that this suit is immoral?
I'm saying that 1) It is not *possible* to change the standard without the permission of the standards body; 2) We want the right to be able to distribute properly marked modified versions of documents issued by standards bodies (where properly marked means adding a notice like "this is not the official standard, we changed it"); 3) If we don't have the right in (2), it's can't be part of Debian. I happen to think that there is generally no moral problem in violating copyrights, but Debian's policy is to honor them.
