Re: What RMS says about standards (was: [rms@gnu.org: Re: Questions regarding free documentation.]
Hi,
>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
Joey> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Because I think that it is in the interests of Debian to
>> distribute even verbatim documents as part of the
>> distribtution. Remember, we havbe not even covered teh other sets of
>> verbatim documents (personal opinions, stories, amgzines, graphic
>> novels). It is not clear why we should necesarily throw it all out of
>> our distribution.
Joey> I don't know about you, but I like to be able to point to a debian cd and
Joey> say, "You can modify any of the stuff on here to your hearts content, with
Joey> no restricton whatsoever. You can use it however you desire. (Well, er,
Joey> except those nasty copyright documents themselves.)"
And I say we should not have the exception even for copyright
documents. They should be in the verbatim section, on another CD, but
in an required package, and with all indications that they are an
integral part of Debian.
manoj
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