On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:39:05PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > IMHO This is _not_ appropriate for debian-devel-announce. It's not a soapbox, > please keep your messages purely informational in the future. (If I haven't > critizied others for doing the same thing, sorry. Maybe it was because your's > stuck out in some way. Either way it's no excuse.) There's been plenty of editorializing going on in previous "Bits from *" mails to debian-devel-announce in the past. I am therefore not sure that everyone shares your understanding of that lists's charter. While I probably could have dressed the window differently, the corollary question of "so why are we applying the DFSG to the GNU FDL at all?" did need to be covered for people to have a complete picture of what's going in the Project. I offered what appeared to me to be the prevailing wind on that corollary, because it is a fundamental assumption underlying the survey itself. As I pointed out, the only proper democratic way to find out for sure is to subject it to a General Resolution. I decided to post to d-d-a mainly so that I could not be accused of confining discussion on this volatile issue to some backwater within the Project. If the Project is going to rise up and strike down the heretics that have overrun debian-legal, now is their chance. They can no longer claim ignorance. If, on the other hand, the views of the people on -legal generally reflect the views of the Project as a whole, or if the Project is willing to leave license analysis to the nerds on -legal, then we'll soon know that as well. The bottom line is that it's a provocative issue, and it ties into the very value judgements upon which this Project was founded. I seriously doubt that any such message can be made "purely informational", at least not until we have some sort of equivalent of a public legislative record of our past decisions. Given the way we operate, most of the time I doubt we'll have such a thing. -- G. Branden Robinson | As people do better, they start Debian GNU/Linux | voting like Republicans -- unless branden@debian.org | they have too much education and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | vote Democratic. -- Karl Rove
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