On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:24:24PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Actually, Matthew Garrett convinced me that choice of venue could be > DFSG-free (see, our opinions are not set in stone), although I still > dislike it; see the bottom of > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/07/msg00812.html, which nobody > commented on.
FWIW, I find that line of reasoning worrisome; it works just as well to convince oneself that arbitrary termination clauses are free. "We're already in a bad situation, so we don't care about things that make it worse and even harder to fix." > I think we *do* have consensus that choice of venue clauses should be > discouraged, certainly? I hope so, but "should be discouraged" doesn't help much; too many people are hell-bent on getting software into Debian, Free Software be damned ... -- Glenn Maynard
