On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 03:25:46PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > You mean you want to go through GR 2004_003 *again*? > > That GR passed and was about the SC, not the DFSG. Personally I think > it was a mistake to not change the terminology used in the DFSG at the > same time as changing the terminology in the SC.
My point is that that GR was highly divisive, and had far-reaching repercussions beyond what the original proposers had expected. We have a consensus now that everything in Debian should be free, even those parts that some don't consider to be "software". While some parts of the DFSG could be interpreted differently when viewed in isolation, as part of the Social Contract and with the context it is clear that this is not meant. If we put this to a vote again, I'm sure many of the old arguments will pop up again, resulting in a lot of heated words, which isn't very useful if you're not trying to change the intended meaning. I'd like to avoid that. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today. -- http://xkcd.com/1133/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140323074052.gc26...@grep.be
