Dear all, during my ongoing NM process, I have been asked to review several Debian documents and propose any changes I would like to see.
While, to put it bluntly, I think the Debian Constitution is written somewhat sloppily, it's most likely not worth going through a GR to get what amounts to janitorial work through. Something that _can_ easily be changed (afaik) is that the DFSG[1] states that 'The GPL, BSD, and Artistic licenses are examples of licenses that we consider free.' It's quite obvious that this refers to 2- and 3- clause BSD, not 4-clause BSD. Still, that's not what it says. Same as above, this is mainly janitorial, but still valid. As I honestly don't know where to take this, I decided to open this can of worms here. Thanks, Richard PS: If anyone's seriously interested in the barrel or container of worms of "clean up the Debian Constitution a bit and see those changes implemented", maybe we should do that in another thread. PPS: Same as whitespace commits, this type or janitorial work can be rather political or even religious. I do not intend to offend your FSM. Promise. [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cad77+gsop_mwf7gcrus+t83nehxszk0q0wt02f0cl3q_snm...@mail.gmail.com
