On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:47:18AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> I'm not going to defend patch clauses. I think they're massively > >> horrible things, and the world would be a better place without them. But > >> deciding that they're not free any more would involve altering our > >> standards of freedom, and I don't see any way that we can reasonably do > >> that. > > > > Why not? There is an established procedure in place for doing so. > > Obviously such a thing should not be done lightly, but that doesn't mean > > it cannot be reasonably done at all. > > Because saying "We used to think that this sort of license provided you > with all necessary freedoms, but now we've decided that it doesn't" > looks astonishingly bad?
So the real reason not to fix it is to save face by not admitting mistakes. I expected better from Debian; don't ask me why. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]