On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 03:28:44PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 09:09:37PM -0700, Grant H. wrote: > > Ok, I will preface this by saying I do NOT speak for the FSF. However, > > in my personal opinion the new documentation does in fact clarify the > > position of Debian but I don't think it does enough to fix the "issue" > > from LibrePlanet's view. Here are a couple examples of why I think that: > > Hi Grant, thanks again for following up and for acknowledging > progress. I agree that what you point out *might* be problematic, but I > think at this point we'd really need some sort of authoritative answer > to solve the "FSF-approved" part. In the meantime, I'm happy that we've > improved things no matter what, which is part of the beneficial > side-effects I was hoping to obtain with bug reports like this one. > > Let me just drill-down a bit more in your analysis: > > > 1) Additionally, it must take care not to recommend nonfree software. > > I think this point is no longer in cause: mentioning something exists is > arguably different than recommending. In fact, with the new text by > Osamu we now recommend *against* using contrib/non-free and motivate > that recommendation. > > > 2) What would be unacceptable is for the documentation to give people > > instructions for installing a nonfree program on the system, or mention > > conveniences they might gain by doing so. > > This point might still be in cause, you're right. I guess we might go > down a bit more on this, but the barrier between mentioning that > contrib/non-free exist (that is somehow a direct consequence of the > Debian Constitution, IMHO) and "giving instructions" on how to install > software from there is very blurry in my opinion. If someone has > wording suggestions on how to fix this, they're more than welcome. > > Cheers. > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o > Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o > Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . > « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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