On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:30:22PM +0200, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote: > This thread costs me about 35 minuts of reading and the decision for > not to use Debian on my servers [which I had in mind] if this > resolution would effect in changes to the Social Contract; mostly > because I need to use java and some other non-free. > PS. Being not a developer I can't formally object to this resolution > :-( A good thing, because you clearly don't understand the resolution. This resolution will do NOTHING to prevent users from downloading, using, compiling from source (if available), modifying, etc. non-free software. It is a largely technical proposal with some alterations to the Social Contract to clear up some muddy language and terminate a compromise that was made years ago for pragmatic reasons. > I understand now: this is the purity that is the main goal of Debian > project. Please, please, remove more software from Debian. Maybe at > some time one of The Great Free Software Prophets consider that some > licenses, e.g. the BSD or the Artistic license as not-sufficently-free > for Real Free Debian? All for purity, and to hell with users' needs. It's refreshing to read such calm, reasoned analysis. -- G. Branden Robinson | Measure with micrometer, Debian GNU/Linux | mark with chalk, branden@ecn.purdue.edu | cut with axe, roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | hope like hell.
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