On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 15:42 +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > I guess the Social Contract really is a joke. I don't know why new > > applicants > > are supposed to agree to it. Old members apparently violate it at will for > > years > > with no consequences. > > > > It doesn't make me respect Debian very much. > > I am not a DD (yet), but all my packages were very strictly checked > for all non-free stuff that I forgot to delete and the Social Contract > is not a joke at all. This is why I am using Debian. >
Good luck climbing to DD :) > > Developers you have, are better than developers you don't have. The > > ones you have, make Debian what it is. If reality doesn't match the > > theory, change the theory, not the reality. > > I disagree - this is one of the reasons I am using Debian, because it > strictly distinguishes between main and non-free. Agreed. > > If there are some non-free parts in the kernel, it can go to non-free > immediatelly, so that users can use it now, but things in main should > be DFSG free and that's how it should be. As I see it, the non-free > section is here precisely for those cases, that intuition says the > packages should be in Debian, nevertheless, they are not DFSG free. > Problem is that there has been non-free content in Linux (eg the kernel) since before Sarge was released (3 years ago?). For both Sarge and etch a GR was passed saying "we'll fix it up after this", and its still not fixed. Of course... this is my understanding only... Karl. > Ondrej > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
