Re: The "Free" vs. "Non-Free" issue
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 21:19:23 +0000, Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> said:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:00:09PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>>
>> > and I've been following them carefully, and none of them have
>> > said anything appreciably more meaningful than "I want to keep
>> > non-free" or "I want to drop non-free".
>>
>> I think there's room for something along the lines of "I want to
>> spin non-free off as a separate project". Much of the concern over
>> dropping non-free seems to be about having things just suddenly
>> vanish.
> We can't meaningfully pass a GR that determines what some non-Debian
> project does - so I can't think how that would be any different.
How is it any less meaningful than passing a GR that woulkd be
in contravention of the social contract? And not so long ago you were
a proponent of just such an action.
manoj
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