On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 04:47:17PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Well, I agree with you that overruling the foundation documents is out of > scope for the technical committee; except the tech ctte has not been asked to > interpret or overrule the foundation documents. The Social Contract > mandates that the Debian system not require the use of non-free components, > but it doesn't go into any detail -- the distinction between "main", > "contrib", and "non-free" is only specified in Debian's technical policy. > It is this latter that we have been asked to rule on -- to "interpret the > interpretation", so to speak.
IMHO, the Policy text is crystal clear. If that has undesirable implications, then it should be changed to say what it really means. --Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
