On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:52:46PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> The Social Contract does not say: Debian Will Remain 100% Free
> Software and Some Other Things That Aren't Software But Which Are Also
> Free But Meet a Different Definition Of Free Than That Which Applies
> to Software, Plus Some Other Stuff That Isn't Free By Any Stretch Of
> The Imagination But Which We Thought Would Be Nice To Have.[1]
>
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/12/msg00027.html
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:43:51PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:52:46PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > The Social Contract does not say: Debian Will Remain 100% Free
> > Software and Some Other Things That Aren't Software But Which Are Also
>
> ...
>
> That just means that those other elements aren't part of the contract.
>
> Alternatively, the social contract also does not say "We're not going
> to distribute books, manuals, or other such things."
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 10:25:05AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> you seem to have trouble reading, so you make up stuff that was never said.
>
> "it says nothing about the non-software in debian."
>
> to help you understand that statement, here's what the dictionary has to
> say about "nothing".
>
> $ dict nothing
> 5 definitions found
[...]
Okay. So if the Social Contract *did* say:
Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software And Some Other Things That
Aren't Software But Which Are Also Free But Meet A Different
Definition Of Free Than That Which Applies to Software, Plus Some
Other Stuff That Isn't Free By Any Stretch Of The Imagination But
Which We Thought Would Be Nice To Have.
would it be incompatible with your understanding of the original Social
Contract?
In other words, is it either of you guys' assertion that, in practice,
the above is how Debian actually conducted itself?
If so, wouldn't the above language be preferable to both the original
and current Social Contracts?
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