Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial)
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:48:34 +0000, Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> said:
> 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?
I think your last effort fixed it, thanks.
manoj
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