On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:27:43 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Salut Charles,
> Our users, if they want to modify, study, redistribute or use after rebuild > our ^^^^^^ > system, need the source. At no moment these operations involve modifying a RFC ^^ ^^^^^^^^^ The marked spots above seem to be a contradiction to me. > or a binary program that is aimed at run on a Windows system. I conclude that > that kind of file, although present in our source packages, are not part of > the > source of our operating system. JFTR: Like some others I disagree on this point of view. IMO "Debian, the distribution" consists equally of binary and source packages, so if a package wants to be considered free as defined by the DFSG there must not be any non-free parts neither in the binary nor in the source package. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Peter Ratzenbeck: Recycling Rag
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