At 2026-01-07T17:10:15+0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 07 Jan 2026 at 15:38:31 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Simon McVittie writes[]: > > > It isn't clear to me whether our rules impose sanctions on > > > maintainers who allow non-Free files to become part of the > > > packaging git repo history, > > > > We do not impose any such sanctions. > > Who is "we" here? Do you speak on behalf of the dgit team, or the DFSG > team, or project-wide consensus?
Hats can be bothersome. > I appreciate that the dgit team has said they are not going to delete > my contributions for having non-Free history, but that doesn't help me > if some other part of the project (for example the DFSG team) declares > non-Free history to be a social contract violation; and because of the > nature of git history, I have to try to satisfy the requirements of > every plausible future set of rules, not just the current one. Just be sure no one takes at offense at your precautions. Regards, Branden
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