Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations
On Wed, Oct 22 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> At some point, someone has to decide. Doing a vote for each is
> impractical. As our choice is _not_ silent, if someones (like usually
> the reporter who _sees_ such tags happen) disagree, he can raise a
> discussion. AFAICT it's what is happening currently, and it shows that
> the system is sane and works. At some point if we want to scale, we have
> to delegate, and it's just that.
Look, I am not proposing we have a GR for every upload. I am
saying that non-free bits in main are a bug. A serious bug. A RC
bug. It is a big fucking deal. It comes to the core of what Debian is.
Now, we know there are unknon bugs and known bugs in the
archive, especially in Sid. Shit happens. Bugs take time to fix. But
releasing with DFSG violations should still be a big deal. It is not
something that some delegate decides is OK to do. The project tands up,
acknowledges we failed out users by not providing them a free operating
system like we promised in the social contract, acknowledge that the
SC is still what we would like to do, but we failed this time around,
and, as a project, take responsibility for our failure.
This is what we have done in the past, through GR's for Sarge
and Etch. We should not become Blase about shipping non-free operating
systems. It should not become common place.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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