On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:03:50AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:10:49 +0000, Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> said: > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:56:27PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> > guidelines that we use to determine if a work is "free" in the > >> > document called the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We will > >> > support people who create or use non-free works on Debian, but we > >> > will never make the system require the use of a non-free > >> > component. > >> > >> No promise, implied or otherwise, that Debian itself will actually > >> follow these guidelines. > > I think at least one of us has missed the point here. > The current social contract starts out by affirming that we > shall keep the Debian distribution (which, often, is contracted to > just Debian, but hey) entirely free, and goes on to state what we > call free software. It further goes on to say that software written > by, or for, the Debian system by the project (well, perhaps, by the > humans who are members of the project, since we are being anal;l > retentive) shall also follow these guidelines (again, the Debian > system, for you information, is also contracted to just Debian, out > there in the boonies). And, uh.... which bit do you feel is not adequetely represented in the proposed new text? Or did I already fix it? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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