Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: ECF/ESF

[Stuart A Yeates]

Chris Croughton wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:04:00PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > First, we all owe a huge debt to the Debian legal team, the FSF team, and
> > others like them for nitpicking. Small problems in licenses could be
> > exploited by nasty people to create large problems for the community. So
> > it's well worth getting every detail "right".
>
> Oh, true, and I have no problem with such nitpicking as long as it stays
> on debian-legal or wherever.  The problem is when it overflows onto
> other areas and affects users (like saying "you can't use your favourite
> window manager (or if you want to do so you have to get and build it
> yourself) because we don't consider it 'free' enough"), that sort of
> thing will (and does) put potential users off.

Chris

You have a choice open operating systems and a choice of distributions 
of linux. Debian makes a stand which differentiates it from other 
distributions. If you don't like the stand Debian makes, go with another 
distribution (or OS).

At least Debian says, up front, what it's stand is, what it believes in 
and which direction it is going in.

cheers
stuart
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