Op 07-08-12 09:19, Adam Bolte schreef: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 10:05:41AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> Paul van der Vlis <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Op 06-08-12 13:50, Karl Goetz schreef: >>>> perhaps nonfree.debian.(org|net) could be used. >>> >>> I don't think that's a good idea. >>> Debian would still distribute nonfree software. >> >> Clint Adams <[email protected]> writes: >>> On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 09:00:14AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >>>> That's going to happen by the Debian project's social contract. Are >>>> you proposing that social contract should be broken? >>> >>> 169 people voted to fix the social contract last time around. >> >> Sure. And I'm asking Paul here whether he wants that social contract >> changed, or something else to happen instead. > > As long as the DSC continues to state that use of non-free packages are > supported, I'd be very surprised if the FSF would ever add Debian to the free > distribution list. If this is important to us (and I'm not suggesting anything > either way), I expect this point on the social contract must be changed. > > In any case, it seems that this will be clarified soon enough.
Good point. But I think the fact that there is non-free software in contrib and non-free, is much more important for the FSF. Changing the DSC is not easy, I expect. With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl _______________________________________________ Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss
