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["Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

Seth Alan Woolley wrote :

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> 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.
> 

I'm in favour of Free(R)(TM)

-- 
Andrew "ruskie" Levstik
Source Mage GNU/Linux Games grimoire guru

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