Re: REVISED PROPOSAL regarding DFSG 3 and 4, licenses, and modifiable text
aj wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:31:06AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I don't think we should *encourage* reasoning by fiat or whim
>
> Possibly more acutely: how is "32kB" justified, apart from fiat or
> whim?
Branden's reasoning seems to be that it's better to fiat once and for
all, rather than every time.
The limit, however, does not have to be decided on a whim; Branden's idea
that we take the largest that's currently allowed in a package, and go
with that. At a very quick glance, it seems like the Emacs manual had the
most invariant text. I think that's certainly an adequate way of choosing
a number.
Still; an arbitrary limit (such as *for example* 32kB) can be abused by
people putting small amounts of bad stuff in and saying "Hey, you let
everyone else in that's under 32kB, why not me?" But who decides what's
good or bad?
Sure, I could picture a more description-based criteria of what's
allowed; like political statements and manifests, with a disclaimer that
if it's obnoxiously long and generally obnoxious it may be disallowed,
but that has problems too.
aj, tb, it's clear you don't like the proposal, so please come up with
suggestions of your own.
Sunnanvind (I'm the solution-less problem-creator, or SLPC for short)
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