I will second this. G. On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 07:33:34PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:31:21AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > A brave assertion. But then you have to think about this carefully-crafted > > document and wonder why it doesn't read like this: > > > > 5. We Will Support Programs That Don't Meet Our Free-Software Standards > > > > We will maintain "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our FTP archive for > > this software. We encourage CD manufacturers to read the licenses of > > software packages in these directories and determine if they can > > distribute that software on their CDs. We will support the use of > > non-free software in Debian, and we will provide infrastructure (such as > > our bug-tracking system and mailing lists) for non-free software > > packages. > > nice idea. i propose that we modify the Social Contract so that it does > say that. > > Anyone willing to second this? > > > > So? Why doesn't it read like that? > > an oversight. it seemed self-evident and obvious at the time. > > craig > > -- > craig sanders > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- Gordon Russell http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~gor PGP Public Key - http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~gor/pgpkey.txt
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