Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > Policy currently defers to the DFSG for a definition of what counts as > free software for Debian's purposes. Thanks to the DPL's delegation of > the ftp-masters, Policy defers to the DFSG plus the ftp-masters jointly.
> If we included text in Policy about common ways in which a package could > fail to satisfy DFSG, Policy would effectively cease to defer to the > ftp-masters. I don't think that Policy has the authority to do that, > and I don't think it would be desirable. Agreed. This area is also fairly controversial and fluid, whereas Policy (at least right now) is very static and slow-moving, so I think we would run a very high risk of incorporating rules that the project then changes and thereby adding to the confusion. > A footnote with a link to the REJECT-FAQ sounds useful. Here's a patch. As much as I don't like footnotes, this does seem like a good use of one. I second your patch (not that I really need to since it's informative). Seems like a good thing to merge. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
