Le 15/10/2016 16:40, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton a écrit : > On 10/15/16, mdn <[email protected]> wrote: >> Debian's approach of this isn't really ethical. > > they're doing the best that they believe they can do, but they _have_ > been told. see joey hess's very public description of the Debian > Charter as a "toxic document". Tanks for the reference > > i've spoken to the FSF about this: from what i gather, the changes > required are actually very very simple: all they have to do is add in > a simple popup message whenever someone clicks the "nonfree" section, > issuing a warning to the end-user that the consequences of their > actions are leading them into unethical territory. > > ... how simple would that be to add? Not a all, but that was a rhetoric question. I am looking forward to make pedagogic help for basic users, I was one myself and I know that even a bit of more help (more that just a popup) isn’t that hard to help, it's just very time consuming. > > the other parts (creating separate DNS names and different > repositories for the nonfree sections) could be done transparently > with HTTP rewrites and redirects (just like devuan seems to be doing) > as an interim measure, then removed at some appropriate point after a > couple of major releases. > > it's really, really not very hard, and we'd end up with Debian - one > of the world's leading Software Libre OSes - being RYF Compliant. > > as it is, we have to fuck around forking tens of THOUSANDs of > packages, with efforts to do so failing under the sheer weight of the > task and the required resources. Agreed > > i really really wish the debian group would wake up, just a little bit. ((trolling) same thing with systemd I wish debian would wake up)
Sorry I couldn't resist ^^ > > *sigh*. > > l. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] >
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
