RE: DFSG: list restrictions, not freedoms

1999-01-26 Thread Darren Benham
Have you been looking at the current draft floating around? (latest revision is at: http://master.debian.org/~gecko/dfsg.text). It does that in part. It starts by listing the freedoms and then lists the acceptable restrictions. On 25-Jan-99 Chris Waters wrote: > Rather than attempt to list all

Re: DFSG: list restrictions, not freedoms

1999-01-26 Thread David Welton
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 03:44:04PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Rather than attempt to list all the freedoms that Debian guarantees, > why not list the *restrictions* on freedom that we do allow, and say > that any other restrictions violate our guidelines. I like your idea - I wonde what it woul

DFSG: list restrictions, not freedoms

1999-01-25 Thread Chris Waters
Rather than attempt to list all the freedoms that Debian guarantees, why not list the *restrictions* on freedom that we do allow, and say that any other restrictions violate our guidelines. IOW, instead of saying, "we allow this, we forbid this, we allow this...", simply say, "we forbid all restri