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Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.



On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:56:03AM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote:
> On 2007-05-31, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > About a year ago, there was a GR (general resolution) that Debian had
> > and it said 'GFDL without invariant sections' are DFSG-free while 'GFDL
> > with invariant sections' is not. Read info on the vote.
> 
> That's all fine and good, and I've been persuaded to see the Debian
> perspective on this. However, there would be fewer angry users if the
> package maintainers put the non-DFSG stuff into non-free _before_ they
> excised it from main. 

The 'free-ness' vote was the primary issue. Those are implementation
details left to the maintainers. There was no direction given to them,
so I would guess they did was what I have read that most maintainer do:
focus on the 'free software' and put any non-free tasks second or lower.
Although I think that your suggestion would have made things a little
easier for the users.
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