** On Jun 16, John Goerzen scribbled:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marek Habersack) writes:
>
> > ** On Jun 13, John Goerzen scribbled:
> >
> > [snip]
> > > > facts I outlined are true, then the GR doesn't make sense at all! ANd that's
> > >
> > > Why? Why does it not make sense to remove the non-free
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marek Habersack) writes:
> ** On Jun 13, John Goerzen scribbled:
>
> [snip]
> > > facts I outlined are true, then the GR doesn't make sense at all! ANd that's
> >
> > Why? Why does it not make sense to remove the non-free software from
> > the Debian Project?
> Because many
** On Jun 13, John Goerzen scribbled:
[snip]
> > facts I outlined are true, then the GR doesn't make sense at all! ANd that's
>
> Why? Why does it not make sense to remove the non-free software from
> the Debian Project?
Because many developers and users think and have written so that it would
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marek Habersack) writes:
> > Do you wish Debian to be known for providing non-free software? The
> > social contract says that Debian is 100% free software, yet you quite
> > clearly point out above Debian has an obvious double standard. We say
> > Debian is 100% free softwa
Le Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 05:12:11PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait:
> The general resolution to abolish non-free is flawed in a number of ways.
Great. I completely share your opinion.
That's my second mail in this tread. I wish everybody could do like me ...
the thread can't be followed unless yo
> They neglect to mention that Debian is already highly successful at
> encouraging non-free software authors to relicense, that distributing
> software as non-free rather than part of the distribution itself is
> already a successful disincentive, that often it is the maintainer of the
> non-free
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:47:12AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> This is a valid point and regardless of the outcome of this resolution I
> am almost insistant that we should also resolve to make the Social
> Contract and DFSG require a 3:1 vote to alter, just like the constitution
> on the ground
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:06:31PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> [please CC: any replies to me]
Notice this? People should need to ask to get CCs. (Not directed at
you, Joy.)
> directory hierarchy? new server/CNAME?), and making the package acquisition
> tools verbosely advise the user about the
** On Jun 10, Joseph Carter scribbled:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 05:12:11PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > The general resolution to abolish non-free is flawed in a number of ways.
>
> Perhaps..
>
>
> > It weakens the social contract
> > ==
> >
> > The social contr
[please CC: any replies to me]
> Perhaps the GR proposed is not the most adiquate solution to do this, but
> I think if there were a second alternative on the table which did not
> alter the social contract and was less technically damaging to the project
> that it actually would have a fair chan
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 05:12:11PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> The general resolution to abolish non-free is flawed in a number of ways.
Perhaps..
> It weakens the social contract
> ==
>
> The social contract is one of the foundations on which Debian users
> base
The general resolution to abolish non-free is flawed in a number of ways.
It weakens the social contract
==
The social contract is one of the foundations on which Debian users
base their expectations for Debian's future directions. Up until now,
Debian users could re
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