Hi Yorick! You wrote:
> <quote> > 1. Debian will remain 100% free > > We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is "free" > in the document entitled "The Debian Free Software Guidelines". *We > promise that the Debian system and all its components will be free > according to these guidelines*. We will support people who create or > use both free and non-free works on Debian. We will never make the > system require the use of a non-free component. > </quote> > > I agree it doesn't say "we promise to distribute each and every piece > of software that could fall into the guidelines' reach", Exactly. It says: "we won't distribute stuff that doesn't adhere to the guidelines". If, according to debian-legal and the ftp masters, choice of venue clauses are a violation of the guidelines, we can therefore not distribute them. > but if we > don't want to render the emphasized promise pointless, we do have to > stick more or less closely to what the DFSG say when we treat things > as free/non-free, otherwise we are blatantly misleading > people. Interpreting the DFSG is one thing, adding stuff to them is > another. So, how, according to you, does such a clause _not_ violate DFSG #5? -- Kind regards, +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 | |----------------------------| Fingerprint: c1f5 f24c d514 3fec 8bf6 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a2b1 2bae e41f 0644 fab7 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]