Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> I don't see how _my_ failure to communicate with exactitude, and taking
> shortcuts, does in any way support your argumentation. It is not a
> unclarity of my thoughts and feeling, just a failure to bring this
> clearly into words. And you choose to attack me on the form rather than
> on the content.
Huh? You asked what changes I thought it would make. It makes some
change, a change which is very important to me, and of only minimal
value to you.
> See above about that. They are not part of the debian project, but they
> are available on the debian archive, as a service to our users who need
> them.
Ah, ok. Then I think it will be a lot clearer to stop putting the
Debian name on them at all. That's one of my reasons for voting for
the resolution. Anthony has said that they *are* part of the "debian
project", but not part of the "debian distribution".
> A, yes ? And the fact that debian ressource would be used for setting
> this alternative archive up and maintaining those packages is not to be
> considered ? Debian ressource in the form of volunteer time, which is
> maybe the only asset debian really has ?
Volunteer time is not owned by Debian. We have no control over
volunteer time, and we cannot assign tasks to persons.
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