Hello,
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 10:00, Michael Stutz wrote:
> Debian might begin officially permitting inclusion of works you can't
> entirely modify in its "free" tree.
This could cause a fork in the Debian project. (I think that would
be bad.)
Our (software) community already has it partisanship amoung
free (and in freedom) software advocates and open source software
advocates. But even in both of these camps, there is still
disagreement when it comes to "content" -- the non-software stuff.
[...]
> And what's now raising this issue is that, unlike the copyleft of free
> software, some of the documentation-specific licenses permit
> unmodifiable text -- the idea now is to permit in Debian _some_
> unmodifiable text in the documentation.
IMO, they should keep the whole thing using only copylefted and
public domain stuff. Whether it be software or documentation.
See ya
Charles Iliya Krempeaux
tnt @ linux.ca
ckrempea @ alumni.sfu.ca
