On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 12:06:05PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> I am surprised to hear you say that, since I would personally have > >> thought that was against the spirit of the social contract. > > I'm sorry, you're mistaken. It was against Andrew's interpretation > > of the social contract. It wasn't against mine, nor to the best of > It certainly was against what I took the social contract to > be. I don't really understand how you could be a member of the project in that case: we've never made any particularly strong efforts to rid the Debian system of non-free documentation or other data. If you believed that was in violation of the social contract, I can't really understand your silence. > I never imagined that Debian was about only part of main being > free, indeed, as Bruce has stated, I, too, was under the impression > that the SC and the DFSG applied to everything on the Debian CD. Well, obviously it doesn't: the text of the GPL isn't distributed under DFSG-free terms, for instance. The Debian logo isn't licensed under DFSG-free terms either, for that matter. The doc-debian package doesn't include a license for the Debian Manifesto. I can't understand why you've been violating your best understanding of the social contract by distributing make's docs in main. Don't you have a problem with promising our users that you won't put anything non-free in the Debian system, then going ahead and doing it anyway? Violating the social contract -- doing something it explicitly forbids -- is different to not fully achieving the goals it implies, of course. > > my knowledge the interpretation of anyone else responsible in that > > area. > I hasve no idea who you think are people responsible in those > areas. ftpmaster@debian.org have the final responsibility for ensuring packages in main are DFSG-free. I'm not sure why you've got "no idea" of this. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Protect Open Source in Australia from over-reaching changes to IP law http://www.petitiononline.com/auftaip/ & http://www.linux.org.au/fta/
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