Re: NEW ocaml licence proposal by upstream, will be part of the 3.08.1 release going into sarge.
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:49:24PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 04:51:36AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > > Bugs have to be fixed, no matter when they are found.
> >
> > Apparently Sven thinks that the "realities of debian release management"
> > is allowed to override the Social Contract. Sven is mistaken.
>
> I will be mistaken once there is a consensus on this here, and not a mere
> handfull of people finding this licence non-free. And you are a mere handfull
> now.
You are wrong, regardless of consensus or lack thereof. "Realities of debian
release management" does not override the Social Contract. Only a GR can do
that. Period.
> Also, why did you not come with these worries a year or so ago ?
Because we wanted to wait until an inconvenient time to do so, in order
to make everyone's life harder.
(Gee. Maybe we just didn't notice them a year ago.)
--
Glenn Maynard
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