On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:54:49PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimar?es wrote: > > > After all, according to www.gnu.org , the Affero General Public > > > License is "Free Software," and I should think that history > > > would give them precedence in making such a decision. > > > > Well, no. debian-legal is the place that Debian discusses their > > definition. Nobody has precedence in defining our terms. > > > > Actually, the ftp-masters and other constituted Debian authorities > have precedence, and debian-legal is only their consulting body. But > the process and the discussions on d-l are a beautifully democratic > part of this process, and it's so good that actually the ftpmasters > often (always?) follow the d-l consensus. There's nothing 'democratic' here. That means 'tyranny of the masses'. Like most of Debian, we operate as an eclectic anarchy. Even a minority viewpoint can win out if it happens to be correct. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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