Re: FSF not considering Debian as Free (Re: Debian and non-free)

2008-09-19 Thread MJ Ray
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] the rule that the FSF has about not linking to any non-free software from their sites, [...] That rule is a myth. It most certainly is not. I can attest to that

Re: Debian and non-free

2008-09-19 Thread cobaco
On Thursday 2008-09-18, Joey Schulze wrote: David Paleino wrote: However, I still believe that censorship is a BadThing©, and everyone should be given the chance to speak. But, well, I don't know what happened with Sven and I don't even want to touch the topic. It's not censorship

Re: FSF not considering Debian as Free (Re: Debian and non-free)

2008-09-19 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It most certainly is not. I can attest to that personally, having been involved in and followed multiple FSF projects for many years. It is an expectation for all GNU projects. Expectation and advice, but not a rule

Re: Debian and non-free

2008-09-19 Thread Ben Finney
cobaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Censorship is nothing more or less then banning/prohibiting certain speach in a certain forum No. Censorship is banning/prohibiting certain speech in *any and all* public forums. Generally, only a state has that power. The crucial difference is that, in this