Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:30:32 -0800, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> said:
> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>> I'm confused. Where does it say that we have to go through the GR
>> process to issue a position statement for something the project has
>> already decided on?
> How do we know the project has decided on it?
> Not a flippant question. That's felt like it's been missing from
> these discussions, and certainly RMS has, in the past, questioned
> whether the project has really decided on it. debian-legal is not a
> decision-making body. I agree with your take on the consensus, but
> I know other people certainly have not.
> I suppose the DPL delegate who could speak officially for the
> project here would be the ftpmasters; is there an official statement
> about this? I believe the release team has decided that GFDL
> inclusion in main is RC for the etch release, but I'm not sure where
> I could find that statement either. I suppose that might be
> sufficient.
The release team has spoken, and they decide what goes in a
release. If they have decided, under advice from debian-legal, that
GFDL docs are RC bugs, then that is that.
Personally, I doubt that there is any doubt that the GFDL
does not satisfy the DFSG.
manoj
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