Scripsit Ricardo Gladwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:47 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> Plus the Debian project as a whole. We already had that GR. You lost, >> badly. >> Oh, and that whole creative commons mob. Yeah. Real few people. > Wow. That seemed unnecessarily hostile. I'm not really sure what you > think I "lost" You may not be aware that there's a rather vocal minority within Debian that asserts that the debian-legal interpretation of software freedom does not correspond to the views of the project in general, which (so the minority claims) would prefer a more tolerant stance towards license restrictions, lack of real source code, etc. When you said that "only debian-legal really seems to take such a stance", Andrew apparently thought you meant that in contrast to other parts of Debian rather than in contrast to parts of the free software movement outside Debian. That would apparently put you in the aforementioned minority group, which we<tm> do not have much patience with after several years of flamewars and two project-wide referenda on the matter. I prefer the more charitable interpretation that you want debian-legal's advice because you think you'll agree more with our viewpoints than with other possible suppliers of license advice. -- Henning Makholm "We can hope that this serious deficiency will be remedied in the final version of BibTeX, 1.0, which is expected to appear when the LaTeX 3.0 development is completed." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]