On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 11:38:33AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Seconded.
>
>> One suggestion: if we modify the Social Contract then we can as well
>> include "non-free-firmware" explicitly as well, i.e., replace
>
>> We have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our archive for
>> these works.
>
>> by
>
>> We have created "contrib", "non-free-firmware" and "non-free"
>> areas in our archive for these works.
>
>I considered doing this, but then I decided against it because I think the
>current wording implicitly allows for there being multiple non-free areas.
>I know that's not how we're currently reading it, and probably not how it
>was intended, but one can interpret the same sentence as saying there is
>one or more contrib area and one or more non-free area.
>
>I like that a little better since it avoids having to update a foundation
>document for what's essentially bookkeeping. Suppose, for example, that
>we want to split out some other bit of non-free in the future for some
>non-SC-related reason (contrib or non-free debug symbols or whatever). It
>feels weird to have to amend the SC just to add the new name to a list.
Right. Maybe it might be helpful to tweak the wording the *other* way
then, something like:
We have created extra areas in our archive for these works.
so we don't specify the areas explicitly? Just a thought...
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