Re: Sobre la retirada de la receta

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 10:47:17PM +0000, Paco wrote:

> El autor del proyecto tiene todo el derecho del mundo a hacer lo que
> le de la gana en su servidor. Eso no se lo puede quitar nadie y no se-
> ré yo quien le diga lo que tiene que hacer.
> Pero por favor, que no diga que esta emulando el espiritu de Debian en
> la Espiral por que eso no es así. Aqui se está hablando de documentación
> y no de codigo fuente. Los paquetes tienen en Debian una estructura
> jerarquizada segun sus reglas, de acuerdo, pero es absurdo meter la 
> documentación en el mismo saco. Los que escriben la documentación son
> los que deciden si sus documentos son libres, no su contenido.

Te aconsejo leer las discusiones sobre documentación que han habido este año
en la lista debian-legal. Por ejemplo:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200203/msg00129.html

From: Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:31:47 -0500

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 02:10:17PM -0800, C.M. Connelly wrote:
> Exactly.  So the question is, does the DFSG really apply to
> documentation or not?

Of course it does.  Read the Debian Social Contract.

   1.  Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software

      We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free
      software. As there are many definitions of free software, we
      include the guidelines we use to determine if software is "free"
      below. We will support our users who develop and run non-free
      software on Debian, but we will never make the system depend on an
      item of non-free software.

The Debian Distribution is entirely, 100% Free Software.

If it's software, it must be Free to be part of the Distribution.

We can treat all kinds of things as "software" for the purposes of our
social contract (documentation, images, sound files, sample core dumps
from a PDP-11 -- whatever).  In doing so, however, this non-software
must meet the same critera as software -- that is, it must be Free -- or
it cannot be part of our distribution.  That's the current status.  To
change it will require a General Resolution.

People are way too hung up on this "documentation" issue.  Somehow
people have the notion that its more legitimate for copyright holders to
withhold the freedoms that we insist upon when we're talking about
something that isn't software in the strictest sense.

In that case, I invite you to purge from your Debian/GNU system
*EVERYTHING* that is not software according to definition you think we
should be applying.  Then get back to me and tell me how useful the
system is.  I imaging that people who are accustomed to the GNOME or KDE
desktop environments, or even manual pages, with find their experience
compromised.


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