Em Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:07:14 -0500, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> You've stated that you disagree with my intended interpretation of the SC. > I believe the concept in question is that we're promising to distribute > in 100% free form software systems which have been in 100% free form. That may be what we're promising now, but what I would like to see the social contract state is that we are not going to distribute or promote non-free software or software which is dependent on non-free software. That means we're going to remove contrib and non-free sections from the FTP servers (interested parties can create a separate association to maintain packages of stuff they like in non-free.org). That means also that we are not going to adopt or promote a non-free installer or any kind of non-free "add-ons" for our system. That does not mean we're going to work proactively in making it impossible to use non-free stuff in the system we distribute, or that we are not going to worry about stuff that is vital to binary-only non-free stuff, like binary-level compatibility with other major players, like red hat, by following the LSB. What Anthony Towns wanted to express in one of his messages[0], I believe, was that we're probably missing the point here. What is it that we're trying to solve on the social contract? If we want to decide on the drop of non-free and contrib from the FTP server and the modification of the 5th clause to simply state that we, although not distributing non-free stuff ourselves, will work on maintaining the technical base working for people who need to install such things. That's the view I would like to see represented in a proposal. It's not about 'not making free stuff non-free' at all. []s! [0]: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> "NÃo deixe para amanhÃ, o WML que vocà pode traduzir hoje!" http://debian-br.alioth.debian.org/?id=WebWML -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
