On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 12:43, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hopefully you can understand my predicament. I'd really like to see > more in the way of round-table discussions between the FSF and the > Debian Project, especially since I feel that philosophically we have far > more similarities than differences.
*fsf hat off* Me too. But it's difficult, given [tries to be diplomatic] the personalities involved, and the disparateness of Debian, etc. *hat on* If you propose something, I'm happy to pass it up the line here at the FSF. *hat off* > At the same time we can't > afford to be blindsided by license changes which we'd consider > unacceptable; any maybe the FSF can't afford that, either; I don't know > how important Debian is to them as an ally and a friendly distributor of > their work. I personally consider Debian approval essential to any new draft of the GPL. > Also, > I think it's about time we made up our minds one way or the other about > the GNU FDL. The latter is an issue that we need to resolve internally > first. I thought Debian had decided that invariant sections, as they are now, are definitively non-free? > All of the above is one reason I'm very happy to have Mr. Turner on this > list. Actually, I think it's hilarious that you're calling me Mr. Turner. Every time I see that, I think, "Oh, my dad's on debian-legal? I know he's a lawyer, but he doesn't know anything about copyright law." I'm glad that I'm finally being given the kind of time I need to engage in this level of conversation on D-L. -- -Dave Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668 "On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock." -Thomas Jefferson
