AJ quoth: >> >Well, >> >the other question that you seem to want to raise is whether we should >> >decide we've been hypocrites and liars for the entirety of our existance >> >by choosing a particular new reading of the social contract. >> Well, you're only lying once you *notice* that you're not telling the truth. >> It appears that, amazingly, nobody noticed the problem for a long time, > >No, that's not true. See, eg, > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/debian-legal-199910/msg00095.html > >This has been an outstanding issue for ages.
I stand corrected... More apropos to that is what I found in this same thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/debian-legal-199910/msg00099.html OK, fine, you've convinced me of the historic level of hypocrisy and wilful Social Contract violation in Debian. I guess I can blame incompetence on the part of Debian's leadership for not removing the stuff in 1999, or indeed 1997. And 2004, too.
