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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Nov 02, Seth Alan Woolley [seth AT positivism.org] wrote:
> http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions
> 
> If you look at the above link, you can see some Totally Free(R)(TM) 
> distros.
> 
> I wanted to ping the list to see if there's substantial support behind 
> meeting their criteria.
> 
> We'd need to do four things:
> 
> Change the social contract to eliminate the "we support non-free 
> software" section.
> 
> Eliminate the z-rejected grimoire to be hosted/maintained by a separate 
> system (no SCM or website mingling, grimoire url to be explicitly added).
> 
> Scan the grimoire for stuff that needs moved to the z-rejected section 
> and do that.  (The FSF keeps a list of GPL-compatible and 
> non-GPL-compatible-but-free licenses.)
> 
> Switch our SCM to something(s) other than perforce for everything.
> 
> Who thinks this is worth it?  Who thinks it's not worth it?
> 
> Seth
> 
> P.S.  I favor becoming as Free(R)(TM) as possible.  I will do what the 
> group desires, but I think it's something we should consider, at least.

While I think it is absolutely worth it to be as free as in speech as
possible, I don't support allowing the FSF/GPL to set our definition of
"free".  I have no compelling interest in being on their list, and would
not support changing our social contract to accomodate this or banishing
z-rejected to "some other server".  There are several packages in
z-rejected that are free as in speech, just not free as in GPL.

My .02.

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