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Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization
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Samuel Thibault |
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Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization |
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Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:50:05 +0200 |
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Mark Wielaard, le ven. 25 oct. 2019 12:20:11 +0200, a ecrit:
> Right. I think what is being objected to is a GNU Social Contract that
> would contain something like this part of the Debian Social Contract
> https://www.debian.org/social_contract
>
> We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works
> that do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We
> have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our archive for
> these works. The packages in these areas are not part of the
> Debian system, although they have been configured for use with
> Debian. We encourage CD manufacturers to read the licenses of the
> packages in these areas and determine if they can distribute the
> packages on their CDs. Thus, although non-free works are not a
> part of Debian, we support their use and provide infrastructure
> for non-free packages (such as our bug tracking system and
> mailing lists).
>
> And I would absolutely agree. That is definitely not something that
> would be acceptable for the GNU Social Contract.
Sure, that's precisely why I previously wrote "I'm not saying the Debian
Social Contract in particular, there are point in there which the GNU
project doesn't agree on ; I am saying a document with the same type of
content: writing down the MUST principles of the project".
Samuel
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, (continued)
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2019/10/24
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Samuel Thibault, 2019/10/24
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2019/10/24
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Samuel Thibault, 2019/10/24
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Ruben Safir, 2019/10/24
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Samuel Thibault, 2019/10/24
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2019/10/27
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2019/10/24
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Samuel Thibault, 2019/10/24
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Mark Wielaard, 2019/10/25
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization,
Samuel Thibault <=
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2019/10/27
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Samuel Thibault, 2019/10/27
- Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2019/10/27
- A GNU “social contract”?, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/10/25
- “GNU software is distributed under the terms of [copyleft] licenses” (was: A GNU “social contract”?), Dmitry Alexandrov, 2019/10/25
- Re: “GNU software is distributed under the terms of [copyleft] licenses” (was: A GNU “social contract”?), Mark Wielaard, 2019/10/26
- Re: “GNU software is distributed under the terms of [copyleft] licenses” (was: A GNU “social contract”?), Carlos O'Donell, 2019/10/27
- Re: “GNU software is distributed under the terms of [copyleft] licenses”, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/10/27
- Re: “GNU cares for computer user freedom beyond software” (was: A GNU “social contract”?), Dmitry Alexandrov, 2019/10/25
- Re: “GNU cares for computer user freedom beyond software”, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/10/27