On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:16:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > The social contract happens to abbreviate "The Debian GNU/Linux > distribution" as "Debian", when you come along and abbreviate "The > Debian project" as Debian too, things become confusing. So, obviously, > you shouldn't do that. Yup. > If you're worried about the confusion in the use of phrases like "Debian > Will Remain 100% Free Software", then the obvious fix is to clarify > the ambiguity. If you want the Debian project to have nothing to do > with non-free software, then you should stop confusing the issue -- > and presumably yourself -- by focussing on ambiguities. Yup. While we're at it, let's not leave the Debian Project's non-GNU/Linux products in an undefined state. There's also Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian GNU/NetBSD -- these ports are mature enough that they self-host XFree86, so I consider them fairly far along. :) The Social Contract in its current form could be read to imply that the rules that apply to Debian GNU/Linux don't apply to these other distributions of ours, and that is not our intent. > If you're not going to follow that advice, for consistency's sake, > you probably should note that according to the first point of the > social contract also says "we will never make the system depend on an > item of non-free software"; so if you're wanting to treat that point > as applying to _everything_ Debian distributes, you should probably be > arguing contrib should be dropped too. I personally would like to see the SC changed such that we can distribute anything as official Debian product as long as it is DFSG-free, which would include stuff in contrib. But I may be biased because I maintain a package in contrib. If giving up autobuilding for xtrs is what it takes to reach closure on this issue, then I'm willing to give up autobuilding for xtrs. -- G. Branden Robinson | I am sorry, but what you have Debian GNU/Linux | mistaken for malicious intent is branden@debian.org | nothing more than sheer http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | incompetence! -- J. L. Rizzo II
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