Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I beg pardon. As I understand it, to run something by someone > implies getting consent. Is that now what you meant? If run something > by means mention in passing, well and good. Anything beyond that is > undue external influence ;-)
Ok, perhaps it wasn't clear. My meaning was that I think we should solicit Bruce's opinion on any changes to the DFSG. It would just be one opinion amoung many, I'm sure. I think it's useful to look at Bruce as the upstream author of the DFSG. After all, he is the primary author. My conversations with him have revealed that he has a deeper understanding of the tradeoffs involved in it and the underlying reasons for what is currently in it than most other people do, and thus I value his advise on the DFSG. Just like with a normal upstream author, we should try to avoid a fork. However, just as with a normal upstream author, we reserve the right to override their decisions if that is necessary for Debian. -- see shy jo
