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: CALL FOR VOTES: First of two votes on social contract

> The Debian Free Software Guidelines
> 
> 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 still disagree with this.  I strongly believe that Debian should allow
software that can be redistributed freely in its unmodified form into
the main distribution.  I don't see how removing this restriction does
anything but benefit Debian's users.


> 6. The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the
>    program is redistributed without the need for execution of an
>    additional license by those parties.

While a good goal, I don't think it is necessary to write it in stone.
I've yet to see a rule that didn't have an exception somewhere.


> 7. The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's
>    being part of a Debian system. If a person extracts the program from
>    Debian and uses it or distributes it without Debian, that person and
>    any people to whom the program is redistributed should have the same
>    rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the Debian system.

This is related to #6 above.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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