MJ Ray wrote: > Personally, I find it disappointing that so many people ranked > opposite views high, then FD below them. I think the "no, > no matter what" description of FD in the ballot is unhelpful > and deters compromise attempts.
I also tend to think that the presence of the absurd "free in all cases" (including invariant sections) option contributed to the belief that the "free without invariant sections" option was the compromise position, rather than the opposing view. Furthermore, I suspect that outside of debian-legal many people had long believed that invariant sections were the only issue with the GFDL, and that the call for a vote was thus the first exposure to the idea that the GFDL had other serious problems. Finally, I agree entirely with the suggestions that both of the "GFDL is free" options should have had a 3:1 requirement. Then only a handful of voters would need to have voted it below Further Discussion for it to have failed, which doesn't seem at all unlikely in the face of the above two points. - Josh Triplett
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