Re: The new Social Contract and releasing Sarge

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

Frank Küster wrote:

> The point is that many people expected that such action would
> 
> - lower our chances for an agreement with the FSF
Current assessment seems to be that it's the opposite; lack of such action
has led the FSF to ignore Debian.

> - worsen the relationship between individual package maintainers and
>   upstream.
Even when upstream is FSF-owned, this probably won't happen.  Requesting
licensing changes from upstream before removing packages is always good
practice, of course.

>   And this would in turn lower the chances that these upstream
>   authors are willing to relicense their work, should the discussions
>   with the FSF _not_ succeed.

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