Re: Firmware & Social Contract: GR proposal
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:01:37AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>
>> One of the people hinting at this has been Steve, who basically said
>> to me recently that for some packages, they would get booted from the
>> release for violating the DFSG, and for other packages, we just wink
>> and nod.
>
>> Now we have it flat out: Steve thinks perhaps we will simply never
>> bring the kernel packages into compliance with the DFSG.
>
> I demand that you retract this slanderous remark. It may be the case that
> the kernel packages are never brought into compliance with the DFSG *as
> currently written*, or *as you would like them to be interpreted*, but I
> would not be spending my time on this discussion if I didn't think it
> mattered to bring the kernel packages in line with the DFSG.
What I meant was "simply never bring the kernel packages into
compliance with the current DFSG". I apologize for the ambiguity.
Thomas
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