On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:02:42PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > However, I also very much dislike the fact that you would strike the > following language from our social contract: > > We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs > that don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. > > and > > Thus, although non-free software isn't a part of Debian, we support > its use, and we provide infrastructure (such as our bug-tracking > system and mailing lists) for non-free software packages. > > If someone were to implement a decent alternative for that infrastructure, > I would be amenable to leaving that part out of the social contract, > but I do not like your "drop it on the floor" approach to this issue. That's half the point. You can vote on it when the ballot goes out. > Furthermore, I think it's important to acknowledge that some of our > users require the use of non-DFSG software, and to support that use. See clause 1, last sentence. Clause 5 is redundant in this respect. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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