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Re: A possible GFDL compromise



* Branden Robinson (branden@debian.org) [030828 20:35]:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:50:09AM -0400, Walter Landry wrote:
> > It would be fair to say that Debian has decided that the GFDL is not
> > free according to the DFSG.  This opinion has only been getting
> > stronger and more unified over time.  However, there is a significant
> > minority who believe that documentation should be judged by a
> > different standard than the DFSG.

> What's your threshold of statistical significance?  I'd like to know for
> the purposes of commentary on my "final" survey reponse summary, which I
> can produce about 12 hours from now if I'm still awake.

5% (means: the conclusion is to at least 95% true, and to less than 5%
false) to make a "probably", 1% to settle it.

In reality I often accept also a 2:1 majority.


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Andi
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