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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
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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
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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
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asking for help with constructing the timeline of events with regard to FSF and Debian publishing their definitions in various ways. --
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Some of the timeline information recently added to this article needs sources and clarifications. To start, I've put a request here:
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licenses article, can some Debian users expand the Debian section of the free software licenses article? Thanks.
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Could someone either add a citation or a link to the debian-legal tests referred to in the article?
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on Knowledge. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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Does anyone know when the DFSG was first published? This seems worth mentioning.
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The world turned a few times and now the selected article has changed to
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What about non-free and contrib, are they not part of Debian?
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Gronky
19:43, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Debian does not distribute the pico package
pine sources in the non-free section
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Joy 11:20, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Gronky
20:49, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
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Gronky
21:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

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