Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:56:03AM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote:
On 2007-05-31, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

About a year ago, there was a GR (general resolution) that Debian had
and it said 'GFDL without invariant sections' are DFSG-free while 'GFDL
with invariant sections' is not. Read info on the vote.

That's all fine and good, and I've been persuaded to see the Debian
perspective on this. However, there would be fewer angry users if the
package maintainers put the non-DFSG stuff into non-free _before_ they
excised it from main.

The 'free-ness' vote was the primary issue. Those are implementation
details left to the maintainers. There was no direction given to them,
so I would guess they did was what I have read that most maintainer do:
focus on the 'free software' and put any non-free tasks second or lower.
Although I think that your suggestion would have made things a little
easier for the users.
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