Perhaps you'd be interested in 20130105150458.ga6...@vasudev.homelinux.net Cheers, Paul
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Richard Hartmann <richih.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- 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/cao6p2qtfuherrkzolcxeujgpvxq5hxodmgg1etqyq-yidrq...@mail.gmail.com
