On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 12:36:56PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I was not aware that Frederik's proposal was for the Debian > project to give carte blanche to the kernel team to distribute > whatever the upstream kernel has, even if it is a major regression in > the freedom from the kernel released in Sarge. > > Indeed, not agreeing to only distribute firmware accompanied > by a license is illegal, and we can't expect the release managers and > ftp masters to knowingly break copyright law. Passing a GR allowing > people to break copyright laws ought not to cut it. > > Secondly, the GR should not be about undoing the progress made > in the kernel in Sarge and beyond, so regressing to a lesser freedom > seems like we are going backwards. > > I applaud the release managers for making it clear that they > are unwilling to break the law, and that they too are opposed to the > regression in freedom for Etch relative to Sarge.
But they had no problem making a generic exception forever about this selfsame issues. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
