On Thu, 27 May 2004 07:53:38 -0400, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:49:12PM -0400, Walter Landry wrote:
>> For anything not in the "distribution" (e.g. the web pages), I
>> would agree. However, I _do_ think that the social contract is
>> saying that anything in the "distribution" must be free software.
> Sure.
> But what you're showing here is that your interpretation is
> plausible. That was never the question.
> What we have is another plausible interpretation which happens to be
> different than yours for the prior social contract.
>> > > > In other words, before the release of the new social
>> > > > contract, there was ambiguity as to which definition of
>> > > > "software" was intended in the DFSG
>> > > > -- the release manager picked the most typical definition,
>> > > > and this was
>> > > > supported in his opinion by historical practice.
>> > >
>> > > It was disallowed by the old social contract. There was a
>> > > clear consensus, and I'm not the only one saying that [1] [2]
>> > > [3].
>> >
>> > "It"?
>>
>> The distinction.
> Anthony Towns already addressed that point. We had some agreement
> on the point, but not a consensus of debian developers.
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>From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Consensus \Con*sen"sus\, n. [L. See {Consent}.]
Agreement; accord; consent.
[1913 Webster]
That traditional consensus of society which we call
public opinion. --Tylor.
[1913 Webster]
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A 4.8:1 supermajority seems to indicate that the public
opinion was pretty clear.
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>From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
consensus
n : agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a
whole; "the lack of consensus reflected differences in
theoretical positions"; "those rights and obligations are
based on an unstated consensus"
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By the second definition, we do have a consensus. I think the
distinction is thin, in any case.
manoj
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