Re: First Call for votes: General resolution for the handling of the non-free section
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:59:26AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:38:08AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:02:49AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Also, i will not speak again about this, since it is evident that you
> > > asked us, me and aj nominally, to use clearer language on this, and
> > > refuse to do the same, playing on the confusion.
> > >
> > > And now that you are aware of that, please refrain from using
> > > voluntarily confusing terms in the future.
> >
> > I still believe that this GR would be useful to reduce the amount of
> > confusion about these naming issues, should it pass.
>
> This GR ? I guess the most reasonable thing to do would be, once the
> decision is made on what we want to do with non-free, to propose a
> second GR to clarify the language accordyingly to the desire of the
> Debian Project (as in those who cared enough to vote).
What I mean is that should this GR pass, there is no more ambiguity on
what is part of Debian* and what is not.
Whether we want to clarify the syntactic or semantic or whatever sugar
of (the) Debian (project|distribution), is only a cosmetic issue then.
But nevertheless worth fixing I guess, it just would not have a big
practical impact anymore.
Michael
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