Re: Choice-of-Venue is OK with the DFSG.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:44:09AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:01:59AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > In fairness he was responding to the Debian tabloid press, which
> > traditionally takes an event, removes all semblence of useful
> > information from it, and posts an inaccurate remark along with a URL
> > to something inappropriate. So his primary error was in believing what
> > you read in the tabloids.
> > 
> > (In this specific instance, it looks like one of my offhand remarks
> > swatting down a non-argument, under the assumption that -legal
> > subscribers understand the context and other people have sense enough
> > to ask - right alongside four other posts with detailed
> > explanations. Gotta love tabloids).
> 
> If that's the case, then Bruce should learn to check his sources and discover
> the arguments; and once he's done so, to present his arguments as arguments,
> and not decrees.  I wouldn't have grunted about it, except that it's happened
> before, in precisely the same way:
> 
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/11/msg00061.html

Well, he provided historical insight, and his own interpretation. Mostly
everybody here provides his own interpretation, with only minimal attempt to
argument it, so it should not be so different.

Friendly,

Sven Luther