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Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge



On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:51:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > 	I think the conclusions drawn by the Debian community need to
> >  be disseminated to the free software community,  and the sooner the
> >  better; I've been dissuaded from doing that by the dangling carrot of
> >  the looming fix to the license. But, at some point, unless one can
> >  bite into the carrot, it fails to be a motivator.
> 
> You know, nothing is stopping package maintainers from talking to their
> upstreams about the problem and helping them choose a license other then
> the GFDL for their documentation. I already have.

Likewise - more or less as soon as this looked like it was going to be a
serious problem, a year or so ago.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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