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I know the Debian project only officially supports art assets that are in the public domain or licensed under a Creative Commons style license, but I can't imag

by MeVfm 12y ago

I know the Debian project only officially supports art assets that are in the public domain or licensed under a Creative Commons style license, but I can't imagine they actually consider these things software. Can you show me where they call these things software? Because if that's true, I find that use of terminology to be quite ridiculous. Stallman thinks all users should be able to share and remix artwork freely, btw.

dmm 12y ago
Sorry for disappearing for a couple days. I'm well aware of Stallman's subtle and well developed stance with respect to human freedom and software, art, and documentation and I think it's perfectly consistent and reasonable. The Debian project has adopted a stance that everything distributed as a part of the project should come with a set of rights, whether it's executable programs, game textures, or documentation. Every part of Debian must conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, even if it's just a text document describing a library. So text files are considered software in Debian for purposes of the DFSG. That's all I was implying by saying that Debian considers non-executable parts of a project to be software.