Markus Laire wrote: > On 8/30/06, Roberto Gordo Saez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If this is the common feeling here, I think I made a serious mistake >> choosing Debian, because it does not follow my definition of freedom. >> I would like to urge to change the Social Contract to be clarified >> this in this case. I'm serious about that, it is no joke, because I >> feel mislead. When reading it I was thinking I was doing the correct. >> I was not sending those bugs because I am bad person, I was actually >> thinking that was the common feeling and the correct think to do. >> >> Currently, under my point of view, the Social Contract and guidelines >> do not reflect reality, they are just hypocrisy. This is a subjective >> view, I know, but I think I'm not the only person in the world who may >> understand it this way, so please, clarify. > > You are not the only one. > > I have somewhat similar feelings after I found out that the > "cdrtools"-package[1] included in Debian isn't DFSG-free, but is still > included in main. > > (Even worse, its license might even be illegal because it's GPLv2 + > incombatible restrictions) > > This problem was mentioned in this list on _2004_ but cdrtools still > hasn't been removed from Debian (see [2]). IMHO "hypocrisy" is perfect > word to describe such behaviour.
I have been working on stuff like this... and I suspect I used the word hypocrisy back in 2004 or earlier, when the Invariant Sections of the GFDL came to light (AJ Towns took the geniunely bizarre view that they were non-free but should be allowed in 'main' for sarge without amending the Social Contract). :-) You would be shocked at when the kernel 'BLOBs' were discovered -- it's even earlier. > I used to believe that Debian only included legal, DFSG-free software > in main, but "cdrtools" fiasco seems to prove that I was wrong. You've been proved wrong long ago. Luckily, I really think that there are relatively few "contaminated" packages (they just happen to be relatively high-profile, important ones). There are probably more where upstream has messed up its licensing but will be happy to fix it. One good thing: the cdrtools maintainers have requested that it be removed. Work is ongoing to get decent replacements. This *will* be fixed. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]