The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.

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Re: Results of "social contract" survey



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On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> 31 people voted (I'll use debian-vote instead of debian-private next time,
> and make the open period for voting longer).

>     YES:    24
>     NO:      4
>     ABSTAIN: 3

> 1. The software may be redistributed by anyone. The license for the
>    software must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow
>    them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the
>    original software. If the license restricts a source file from being
>    distributed in modified form, it must allow "patch files" to be
>    distributed with the source for the explicit purpose of modifying it
>    at build time. The license may require derived works to carry a
>    different name than the original software.

I think Ian Jackson already said it, but I want to say the same, even if
it sounds as a "me too":

The license should not restrict the source file from being distributed in
modified form. Our current package format is just a convenience and should
not be mandated by the program license.

If a package stops being maintained upstream, it will become extremely
ugly to distribute it using patches.


[ So I could not vote, because my vote was not boolean :-]

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