On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Martin Schulze wrote: > Moving the non-free (and contrib) part out of the main archive is a > logical conclusion to our social contract. I don't understand why > developers who agree to our social contract now disagree with this > conclusion.
Well, nobody has been able to show it conclusively either way. It comes down to your personal feeling on what the social contract means and what effect the proposal will have. Remember that we have pledged to support our users, non-free software AND support free software (clause #4, clause #5 and clause #1), giving the users precidence. If you think that this change will not effect our users negatively then it is indeed allowed by our social contract If you think splitting the archive will annoy and irritate our users then it is definately counter to the social contract. Unlike some of our other actions that have irritated users (like the main/contrib/non-free) this is not something that is *required* by the social contract. Clause #1 is very clear and we were technically in violation. > PS: Are you sure that -vote is the proper place to discuss this and > not -devel? Apparently so.. Jason
