David Nusinow writes: > >2) Steve McIntyre has continually suggested codifying the various things in the >DFSG. I fully agree with this. If you really truly believe that your >interpretations are shared by the rest of the project, then you have nothing to >fear from this, and you only stand to gain.
But it seems that codifying the more common non-free clauses would remove some of the ambiguities in the DFSG, and then people on -legal would have less to hand-wave about. That seems to be a core objection... >3) As I stated earlier, I liked the news post to DWN. Keep those up for big >things like new tests and interesting new interpretations. > >4) Announce major changes to things to -devel-announce. If a major license is >declared as non-free, announce it to -devel or -devel-announce (maybe the >-devel first in order to allow dissenters to weigh in before going for the >broader -devel-announce). Good plan. >5) Possibly start -legal-announce for summaries and such > >Hopefully those are good starting points for you. My goal isn't to tear down or >break consensus, but to bring some sort of peace and compromise. If you don't >like this and would rather rant and talk in circles, then I'm not the man to be >posting to this list. If you like any of these ideas, let me know and I can try >to help implement them. Good luck; you'll need it. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Dasmohapatra
