On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 07:52:11PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Sorry for the complications. There is an attempt to change the DFSG > through various "Tests". Some of them make sense, some of them are > just arbitrarily designed to exclude specific licenses (or even > specific software!). The proper way to update the DFSG is a vote on > an amendment to the Social Contract/the DFSG, and I think it's time to > again follow the Debian Consitution in this area. Where does the Social Contract bind us to using no tool other than the DFSG to determine whether a work we distribute as part of our system is free? Interestingly, the new version of the Social Contract[1] seems to give us less latitude than the original version[2] in using anything adjunct to the DFSG for freeness determinations. However, thanks to the latest General Resolution vote, the new version of the Social Contract is not the one that is currently in force. Those who were furious with the changes saw to that. Oh, the irony. :) [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract [2] http://www.debian.org/social_contract.1.0 -- G. Branden Robinson | The last time the Republican Party Debian GNU/Linux | was on the right side of a social branden@debian.org | issue, Abe Lincoln was president. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Kirk Tofte
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