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Bug#154312: Is mldonkey DFSG-Free ?



Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:

>>   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

  Where did I say it had to? Please read the thread again. I talked about
  Debian business, not Bas'.

> 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.

  Did you ever consider contacting upstream before doing such
  denouncement? Don't they have something to say? Why do you think you
  cannot find a solution with them?

> 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.

  You got it! It has nothing to do in a bug report log from our BTS:

    Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:17:21 +0200
    From: Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>
    To: Bas Zoetekouw <bas@a-eskwadraat.nl>
    Cc: rms@gnu.org, 154312@bugs.debian.org

  Robert could have done it on his own without CC'ing the BTS.

-- 
Jérôme Marant

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