On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:19:15AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > We know that, as with every guidelines, there are border cases were > these guidelines don't really match. We promise to use our common > sense in this case to get to an appropriate result. We will use our > guidelines in a way that serves our users and the free software > community, and we don't intend to blow our guidelines up to full legal > texts, because we aim to create the best operating system, consisting > of free works, and not a place for lawyers-to-be. > > Furthermore, by this decision, we overrule the decision by the release > manager in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/04/msg06588.html and > re-inforce the release policy that was valid prior to this date[1]. Of > course, the Release Manager team is authorized to adjust the release > policy. Objection. Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat. I interpret the first paragraph above to mean that we should not release with GFDL documentation in main, since that is the obviously correct path; doing otherwise would serve neither our users nor the free software community, as it would engender acceptance of a license which is antithetical to both. With this in mind, the contradiction inherant in this resolution can only be interpreted as equivalent to "The DFSG is hereby rendered impotent for all practical purposes; anything can be included in main if we feel like it". -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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