Re: "keep non-free" proposal
AJ quoth:
>> >Well,
>> >the other question that you seem to want to raise is whether we should
>> >decide we've been hypocrites and liars for the entirety of our existance
>> >by choosing a particular new reading of the social contract.
>> Well, you're only lying once you *notice* that you're not telling the
truth.
>> It appears that, amazingly, nobody noticed the problem for a long time,
>
>No, that's not true. See, eg,
>
>http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/debian-legal-199910/msg00095.html
>
>This has been an outstanding issue for ages.
I stand corrected...
More apropos to that is what I found in this same thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/debian-legal-199910/msg00099.html
OK, fine, you've convinced me of the historic level of hypocrisy and wilful
Social Contract violation in Debian. I guess I can blame incompetence on the
part of Debian's leadership for not removing the stuff in 1999, or indeed
1997. And 2004, too.
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