Editing The Open Source Definition (section)

==Application==

===Software===
Most discussions about the DFSG happen on the ''debian-legal'' mailing list. When a Debian Developer first uploads a package for inclusion in Debian, the ''ftpmaster'' team checks the software licenses and determines whether they are in accordance with the social contract. The team sometimes confers with the debian-legal list in difficult cases.

===Non-"software" content===
The DFSG is focused on software, but the word itself is unclear—some apply it to everything that can be expressed as a stream of bits, while a minority considers it to refer to just computer programs. Also, the existence of [[PostScript]], executable scripts, sourced documents{{clarify|reason="sourced documents" is an ambiguous technical term|date=January 2022}}, etc., greatly muddies the second definition. Thus, to break the confusion, in June 2004 the Debian project decided to explicitly apply the same principles to [[software documentation]], multimedia data and other content. The non-program content of Debian began to comply with the DFSG more strictly in Debian 4.0 (released in April 2007) and subsequent releases.

===GFDL===
Much documentation written by the [[GNU Project]], the [[Linux Documentation Project]] and others licensed under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]] contain [[wiktionary:invariant section|invariant section]]s, which do not comply with the DFSG. This assertion is the end result of a long discussion and the General Resolution 2006-001.<ref>[http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 General Resolution: Why the GNU Free Documentation License is not suitable for Debian main]</ref>

Due to the GFDL invariant sections, content under this license must be separately contained in an [[Debian#Repositories|additional "non-free" repository]] which is not officially considered part of Debian.

===Multimedia files===
It can be sometimes hard to define what constitutes the "source" for multimedia files, such as whether an uncompressed image file is the source of a compressed image and whether the 3D model before [[Ray tracing (graphics)|ray tracing]] is the source for its resulting image.