Le Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:50:04PM -0500, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > > We're pretty much at an impasse, then, so I don't think I'll reply > after this message. I, and many Debian folks, don't quite understand > the essential difference, between functional source code and > non-functional documents[*], that make the DFSG freedoms only important > for the one and not the other. I mean, if I might want to freely make > derivative works of software, well, maybe I want to freely make > derivative works of spec documents too. For many of the same reasons, > in fact.
On the other hand, does the effort of removing these documents from the upstream sources has any chance to make things change in the future, by either having the IETF freeing the RFCs, or volunteers paraphrasing free versions of them? I can understand how OpenOffice is more free than Microsoft Office, but not how a source package with the RFCs deleted is more free than the original one... This said, it does not make a big difference, apart from the packager's time... But would I be asked to expurge one of my package, I would probably consider moving it in non-free instead. Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]