Talk:Debian Free Software Guidelines

Debian in free software licenses
The free software licenses article only discussed FSF's point of view until recently. I've started sections about the BSD philosophy (which has been expanded by some BSD users), and a section about the Debian position. Without duplicating any content that is on the DSFG article or that is already on the free software licenses article, can some Debian users expand the Debian section of the free software licenses article? Thanks. Gronky 19:43, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

pico &co
Just to explain my rollback of the last anonymous edit - pico is not free according to the DFSG, because the pine/pico license forbids the distribution of modified binaries. Which is why Debian does not distribute the pico package, only the pine sources in the non-free section. And indeed another reason for pico not being worked on is that there exists nano. --Joy &#91;shallot] 11:20, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

When was it written?
Does anyone know when the DFSG was first published? This seems worth mentioning. Gronky 20:49, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

On Portal:Free software, DFSG is now the selected article
Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was Beowulf (computing), the clustering technology. --Gronky 21:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)


 * The world turned a few times and now the selected article has changed to Free Pascal - which had it's 2.2 release earlier this week. --Gronky 21:16, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Getting the timeline right
Some of the timeline information recently added to this article needs sources and clarifications. To start, I've put a request here:


 * Talk:The_Free_Software_Definition

asking for help with constructing the timeline of events with regard to FSF and Debian publishing their definitions in various ways. --Gronky 15:24, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

"We promise that the Debian system and all its components will be free."
What about non-free and contrib, are they not part of Debian? 120.28.64.72 (talk) 05:54, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * nvm, just read the DFSG faq #26 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.28.64.72 (talk) 06:16, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

debian-legal tests
Could someone either add a citation or a link to the debian-legal tests referred to in the article? Kevin Steinhardt (talk) 21:24, 7 April 2011 (UTC)