Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] DFSG-revisionists are the people who in > the last year invented things like the "dissident test" which are not > derived from the DFSG and pretend to use them as a measure of software > freeness for Debian. [...]
I'm pretty sure that the dissident test is older than that, but I don't know how old. Do you mean the dictator test, which was suggested and seemed to provoke discussion rather than be accepted? (Although you wouldn't know that from some reports!) I think the drive to connect the informal tests back to the DFSG has been a good one and it's certainly made me think again on a couple of things. I hope that the link was there originally and has just been lost because of the sort of habit and familiarity that made you name the wrong test above. It's also made people rely on the tests less when it's near the borderline, IMO. > This "consensus" has been formed in the small circle of the DFSG > revisionists when nobody else payed much attention to debian-legal, and > now it's being used to silence dissenting opinions with the argument > that "all objections have been dismissed". Silence? Have you been banned from debian-legal now? I can see an argument for doing so, but I would hope that it would be reported and overruled. You seem to refuse to participate effectively, but your most destructive actions don't happen on-list. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Subscribed to this list. No need to Cc, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
