Re: The new Social Contract and releasing Sarge
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 04:43:09PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> "Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> schrieb:
> >
> > In many cases there was more than enough time to do something about
> > them. A search of the BTS for the sarge-ignore tag shows that most
> > (all but 2) listed bug reports are over 200 days old, more than
> > enough time to do something about them. Granted this is but a
> > cursory glance at these tickets.
>
> Of course there would have been time.
Would have been time? There _was_ time, over 200 days in most cases. If
the necessary change couldn't be made in 6+ months, how much longer should
it be given?
> But instead of removing them, the
> better thing would be to relicense them, or to change the GFDL. Many
> people hoped, and still hope, that the negotiations with the FSF will
> lead to some action in that direction.
In the meantime, they _are_ violations of the DFSG and should be _fully_
treated as such. If that means removing their current versions from
main, so be it. If instead the parts in violation are removed, so be
it. They can be added/moved back when the violation is resolved.
--
Jamin W. Collins
It has always been Debian's philosophy in the past to stick to what
makes sense, regardless of what crack the rest of the universe is
smoking. -- Andrew Suffield
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