[dmm]

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.