On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:40:59 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> David Paleino gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Thus, although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we support their
>> users and provide infrastructure for non-free packages [..]."
>>
>> (I'm not a native speaker, that might be better worded)
>
> How about "... we provide support infrastructure for non-free packages
> [..]."?
That's better :)
>> Would that be clearer?
I was one of the GnuHerds developers at the time, and have had also private
mails with RMS... and that's the best mail I found in my inbox :)
> If anyone wants to try to deal with these cans of worms positively,
> I'll support them, but I'm not leading the charge because it doesn't
> bother me as much, as long as debian is 100%% free software.
I'm not a DD (yet -- still in NM), so I can't help that much here.
What does it take to change the wording of the Social Contract? A bug filed to
"general"?
Kindly,
David
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