Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: >> Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > ndiswrapper is a piece of free software. It does not need non-free >> > tools to build, and it will execute as a standalone app without any >> > drivers. The fact that most people use it to enable non-free >> > drivers to work is largely irrelevant - most people use wine and >> > various other emulators for similar purposes. >> > >> > We have historically allowed all of these in main because we have >> > defined the criteria for main in the SC and the DFSG. Repeatedly >> > over the past year or two, several people have been trying to >> > incrementally rewrite the foundation documents by stealth through a >> > slow process of arguing for new interpretations of what these >> > documents meant. I see this entire thread as yet one more attempt >> > at this incremental revisionist work, and it is worrisome. >> >> If you are arguing that people are acting in bad faith, then please >> take the argument elsewhere. I find far more worrisome this attitude >> that other developers are lying. I trust my fellow developers to be >> honest with me; if you do not, please do not infect threads with such >> suspicions. > > I said neither that anyone was lying, nor that they were acting in > bad faith. I think that they are working for something they believe > in and that they are going about it poorly.
You used the word "stealth" and "revisionist". These are not contributions to an attitude of openness and trust. > We have a procedure for > changing what the foundation documents say, and it is not by filing > bugs or appealing to the tech ctte. The tech-ctte is there to address technical disputes. > If people want the SC to say "We > will never make the system require the use of a non-free component, > and additionally we will not include in our main distribution software > that is mostly used for running non-free code", I think they should just > say so, rather than trying to advance that agenda in round about manner. Once more, the SC does not address the main/contrib distinction at all, as far as I can tell. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
