Re: changes and standards documents
Hi,
>>"Raul" == Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:
Raul> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> wrote:
>> Why? What harm dos the community suffer from Debian
>> distributing the FSSTND?
Raul> In main? Or as an accompanying (non-main) document?
I was thinking of the community in general, and whther wide
dissemination of an immutable standard is beneficial or not. And
using that to decide whether we want to distribute things good for
the community in main or not.
Raul> Anyways, that's a single case.
Not really. The FHS is coming up. And then there is going to
be the LCS, I think, and there may well be others. You can't just
say, oh, well, there is only one case now, lets sweep it under the
carpet. hat does not scale well. We should take time now and think
about whether we really want to keep things like this in main, in
verbatim, or elsewhere.
Raul> Here's different hypothetical single case: a KDEBASE reference standard,
Raul> source code included. [Don't tell me that there won't be people who
Raul> fail to see the distinction between a standard and a program.]
I don't really care about uninformed people. Bundling a
standard with an implemntation does not mean that we can't
look at the standard's licencing separately. If they insist on
bundling the standards document, well, it all may well go in
contrib.
I do not see this as a problem.
manoj
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