Re: DFSG is not suitable for things other than software
"Yuhong Bao" <yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com> writes:
> DFSG is not suitable for, and should not be applied to, things other
> than software.
Agreed. It's called the "Debian Free Software Guidelines" and is only
intended for software. This includes anything distributed as part of
Debian.
> For docs there should be a separate DFDG
All digitally-stored, computer-accessible information is software, as
distinct from the hardware that contains it.
This distinction is much clearer than trying to distinguish whether a
bitstream is documentation, program, image, music, prose, data, and
may other classifications. Please search the archives of this mailing
list for long discussions showing that many of these classifications
overlap, often on the same file at the same time.
“We can't depend for the long run on distinguishing one bitstream
from another in order to figure out which rules apply.” —Eben Moglen
<URL:http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_8/moglen/>
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