On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:09:33PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Debian Project Secretary (secretary@debian.org) wrote: > > > New text: > > > > 5. Works that do not meet our free software standards > [...] > > We encourage CD > > manufacturers to read the licenses of the packages in these areas and > > determine if they can distribute the packages on their CDs. > ^^ > This "if" should be "whether". Only when you have a list of alternates following it, rather than a single boolean. The equivalent form would be "whether or not ...", which I considered to be needlessly verbose. > > Thus, > > although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we support their use > > and provide infrastructure for non-free packages (such as our bug > > tracking system and mailing lists). > > Misplaced modifier -- it sounds like the BTS and mailing lists are > non-free software! Possibly change to: "Thus, although non-free > works are not a part of Debian, we support their use and provide > infrastructure (such as our bug tracking system and mailing lists) > for non-free packages." Which is how I had it originally (first draft), and somebody objected. I recall that they had a valid point, but I'll have to go digging to remember what it was. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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