[med-svn] r5570 - trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg

[Andreas Tille]

Author: tille
Date: 2010-12-09 21:07:30 +0000 (Thu, 09 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5570

Modified:
   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
Log:
Alternative explanation for Debian Policy (as comment)


Modified: trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
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--- trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-09 21:04:43 UTC (rev 5569)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-09 21:07:30 UTC (rev 5570)
@@ -192,22 +192,19 @@
 Policy and the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
 
 
-%\subsubsection{Debian Policy}
-%
-%\marginpar{the LSB is contraproductive in this context, really}
-%
-%To a certain degree all GNU/Linux distributions are similar.
-%The \printurl{www.linuxbase.org/}{Linux Standard Base}
-%(LSB)\cite{lsb} is an attempt to develop and promote a set of
-%standards aiming to further increase compatibility among Linux distributions,
-%thereby enabling software applications to run on any compliant system.
-%The very essence of a particular distribution is its {\itshape policy
-%  document\/}.
+\subsubsection{Debian Free Software Guidelines and Debian Policy}
 
-\subsubsection{Debian Free Software Guidelines adn Debian Policy}
+%The Debian Policy describes the structure and contents of the Debian
+%archive and several design issues of the operating system, as well as
+%technical requirements that each package must satisfy to be included
+%in the distribution.  It makes sure that all different kinds of Free
+%Software can coexist on a Debian system.  The conformance of a package
+%with Debian Policy can be checked using the program \package{lintian}.
 
 Free or not free - Debian has a collection of conditions referred
-to as the Debian Free Software Guidelines that allow the distinction
+to as the
+\printurl{http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines}{Debian
+  Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)} that allow the distinction
 between Free, distributable as non-free and not distributable.
 The most notable of these rules are that software must be allowed
 to be modified, that those modifications be allowed to be redistributed