On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:59:09PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Bas Zoetekouw <bas@a-eskwadraat.nl> writes: > >> Bas, you disgust me! CCing RMS is not our business! If we consider that > >> we should not package it, then we don't, _end-of-story_. > > Well, I think mldonkey, how useful their program may be, seems actually > > to be abusing the FSF's infrastructure for a non-free project. I think > > we owe it to the FSF to at least notify them of this. > Debian does not owe anything to the FSF. We have to mind our > own business which is to decide if we package something or > not. Full stop. OTOH, Bas does not have to account to you or to anyone else in Debian for decisions he makes as a member of the Free Software community. You seem to be implying that because he is a Debian developer, all of his contact with the rest of the community must be sanctioned by the DPL. (Or perhaps by you?) I certainly don't see anything wrong with bringing an issue to the attention of the FSF if he thinks there has been an oversight. If you ask me, it seems like a rather neighborly thing to do. You are right that it is not *Debian's* business to worry about non-free software on the FSF's servers. But Debian != Bas, and Bas's business is his own. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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