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Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files



On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:27:01AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> wrote:

> > In any case, I think the GFDL is too well entrenched in Debian for the
> > ctte to be summoned.  A GR is the only reasonable way to decide what to
> > do with it.

> I'm considering a GR on what I have for breakfast tomorrow. Except, no,
> I'm not. That would be stupid. The situation with the GFDL is fairly
> straight forward - we had a vote that altered the social contract in
> such a way that documentation unambiguously has to be DFSG free. We had
> another vote where, having had the consequences explained to them,
> people chose not to revert that decision. Now you want another GR to
> decide something that we've already decided?

> GRs should be something that happen very rarely. They're the only thing
> that let us change our infrastructure, and that's what they should be
> limited to. Not rehashing decisions that have already been made. Not
> trying to force people to behave in certain ways. And, depressingly, not
> to let me avoid having to make my own mind up when faced with the choice
> between toast and cereal.

[ ] toast
[ ] cereal
[ ] toast, then cereal
[ ] cereal, then toast
[ ] gruel
[1] further discussion


No breakfast for you...

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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