On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:43:04 -0400, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > Well, unless I was really blind, I couldn't see the original sender > (Luke Shumaker?) saying anything about "FOSS".
I didn't start the thread, but it was my email that André was directly replying to in the first email that went to libreplanet-discuss. > It's funny fact that there is a GNU package/software called Arch, so > making a distinction as to which "Arch" the contract talks about is a > good thing. I was thinking about GNU Arch too, but it didn't make it into my email :) > [Insisting that all everything be Free Culture] actually makes most > free software projects ineligible for inclusion on system > distributions that follow the current Definition of Free Cultural > Works, since following this definition results in questions of > whether that file is the preferred form of modification or the > complete corresponding source. Not to mention that sometimes the the "culture" stuff is just straight-up not Free Culture. Take for example, the several essays by RMS that are included with Emacs. I think that stripping those out would be insane. We'd also probably run into the same issue as Debian with considering some GNU manuals non-free. I absolutely oppose anything that would require us to not ship GNU manuals. -- Happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker