On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:24:48PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:02:22PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Do you believe Debian should not be distributing what the Free Software > > Foundation classifies as "semi-free" software? > > > > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/categories.html > > > > If so, why? > > I do not believe Debian should be distributing such software. It > rightly fails the DFSG. For some users (for instance, a business) it is > actually less free than something without source (such as Netscape 4.7). > The no discrimination clause in DFSG is an important one. Debian must > be equally Free for all.
then by your logic, we must stop distributing GNU/FSF documentation, and we must stop distributing any GNU software that is distributed *WITH* non-free documentation. their new documentation license is not DFSG-free. craig some of us live in the real world, not lawyer-land.
