On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:24:00PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Steve" == Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes: > Steve> As a developer, I am by no means in a position to try to > Steve> interpret what the phrasers of the Social Contract /really/ > Steve> meant to say. They wrote what they wrote, and I agreed to it > Steve> as written; as did many other developers we have today, who > Steve> were not involved in the original composition of the Social > Steve> Contract and the DFSG. > The author of the social contract is still around, as are some > of the rest of us who were involved in the process. It is not as if > we are all dead and gone like the US founding fathers, you know. You > could just ask. I'd be happy to hear clarifications from the author and contemporaries, then; to be honest, my memory of Debian history isn't good enough to even know who to approach. (The debian-doc package is conspicuously lacking of the relevant copyright information, btw. :) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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