On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > That was a conscious decision on the part of the project to revise the text > of the Social Contract. That vote did *not* replace the use of the word > "program" in DFSG#2 with the word "software". It is incorrect to infer from > this vote that Debian decided to require source for all non-program works.
As far as I can tell, not modifying the DSFG at the same time was an oversight. Fixing that mistake was attempted in a later GR but that was blocked with a narrow margin. https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_004 The DFSG mentions "program" in other sections too. Does that mean that we can accept non-programs with licenses that: Discriminate against fields of endeavour (item 6)? Don't let Debian pass licenses on to users (item 7)? Don't apply to entities other than Debian (item 8)? I definitely can't agree with your interpretation here and think we should amend the DFSG to replace all uses of the words "software" or "program" with "work" or similar. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6Hz9q+Cpj1TWANrGGweTUHh9UD+q72iNbvm6ds5a-_g=a...@mail.gmail.com
