geez, these reactions like: "condemnation" and "punishment" - im really only addressing the most extreme (stick a fork in it) cases here - i did not realize any were ever demoted for any reason for any period of time in the past - that is really all i hoped to establish as a baseline for
On 03/24/2018 08:47 PM, Jason Self wrote: > Distros are expected to fix freedom problems but I don't know that the > FSDG can be read that a distro must provide support to its users > beyond providing for a way to report freedom problems. sure, BLAG and proteanos do have mailing lists on which freedom problems could be reported - but they are quite pointless if the maintainers do not read their mail On 03/24/2018 08:47 PM, Jason Self wrote: > The GNU Bucks > program, for example, conditions getting the Buck not merely on > *allegation* of a problem but "after the maintainer has confirmed that > the bug is valid." Why not tie program removal to that same standard? well, because i am of the mind that software should be considered non-free until proven otherwise - and probably a court would agree if it ever came to that - so such a program probably should have never gotten into a FSDG distro the first place if it has never been established as being distributable - one should hope that the question of whether or not a program is freely licensed is something objectively verifiable and in fact verified; rather than something to be subjectively decided by the each downstream i have said it again and again: i dont care what the actual answer is in this case - i just want everyone to agree what the answer is but if that is impossible to determine objectively, then the size of this program IS itself it's own worst problem; justifying, on that fact alone, not to provide this opaque behemoth to users - if no one (including it's own maintainers) can so much as determine the licensing of such a massive program; then HTF can anyone be confident enough to endorse what the executable code may or may not do once running on the users machine?
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