Re: A transition plan to fsf-linux.org
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:24:36AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2004-01-22 09:09:30 +0000 John Lines <john@paladin.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >re-badge it as fsf-linux.
>
> This seems an obvious faux pas, given FSF's view that the OS should be
> GNU/Linux, as Debian currently calls it. Missing from this transition
Well, since it will be the fsf handling it, they can call it anything
they want.
> plan are any proposals to address namespaces, Origin and Bugs, amongst
> others. There may be cases where debian regards software as free while
> FSF does not, because of our different ways of evaluating licences,
> although I cannot think of any current examples.
Well, the packages would be exactly the sames, the Debian BTS would be
used, just that the FSF would maintain a main only mirror or something,
with maybe a mirroring trick to integrate a set of packages the FSF
considers as free and which are not for debian. They could even strip
the recommends/suggests to non FSF-free packages, and everything would
be fine. Not sure about conflicts though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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