ke, 05-03-2003 kello 18:10, Russell Nelson kirjoitti: > The boards of SPI and OSI are of the opinion (or at least have > been) that there should be one functional definition of open source > and free software.
http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution, section 9, "Software in the Public Interest", subsection 9.1, "Authority", enumerated list point 1: SPI has no authority regarding Debian's technical or nontechnical decisions, except that no decision by Debian with respect to any property held by SPI shall require SPI to act outside its legal authority, and that Debian's constitution may occasionally use SPI as a decision body of last resort. Thus, the opinion of the board of the SPI has no relevance for this. The consensus of Debian developers on debian-legal seems to be that the DFSG works well enough for Debian as a set of guidelines, and that rewriting it as a definition instead is not a good idea. In fact I, as others, think it is a particularly bad idea, from Debian's point of view. I will lobby against such a change. The OSI, on the other hand, needs a definition. There seems to be no middle ground. I see no problem with the OSI doing their thing and Debian doing its thing. Thus, I also see no point for this discussion to continue.
