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MJ Ray

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(Msg. 16) Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:40 pm
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Russ Allbery <rra RemoveThis @debian.org> wrote:
> I dealt with this in my original message.

So don't let my disagreement provoke a repeat if that causes unhappiness.

> For the record, I'm one of the
> people who doesn't believe this is the case without straining the reading
> of those two points. I think the belief that the existing guidelines
> clearly imply this is to some degree debian-legal group-think.

debian group-think perhaps, as much of it predates debian-legal.

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(Msg. 17) Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:10 pm
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Marco d'Itri <md.RemoveThis@Linux.IT> wrote:
> mjr.RemoveThis@phonecoop.coop wrote:
> >Maybe relocating, but not on VAC AFAICS and still active on various
> This is not what I claimed.

So if it didn't hinder your participation in debian, it's probably not
the reason you still have no examples of DFSG-1-revisionists.

> >> Can't you come up with anything better than this?
> >Why do I need to? Can you show that those DFSG-1-revisionists exist?
> DFSG revisionists are the people holding one or more of these beliefs,
> which were not usually accepted by developers when I joined the project:

You joined the project when? Before 1999, I think.

> - the DFSG 1.1 just clarifies the meaning of the DSFG 1.0 and does not
> actually imposes new rules about what is acceptable in Debian

DFSG 1.1 didn't exist until 2004, so clearly this view could not be
usually accepted by developers when you joined, so it's a bit of an
unreasonable standard to hold people to.

In any case, surely the revisionists are those who think 1.1 *revised*
the DFSG, rather than those who think the DFSG still mean the same?

> - the dissident test, the desert island test, the moose test, etc are
> implied by the DFSG
> - reasoning schemes like "even if everybody used to agree that the DFSG
> had to be interpreted as X we now believe that it really meant Y != X"

I'm not convinced there are many of those around.

> - various other minor beliefs about what the DFSG means which were not
> commonly accepted by developers some years ago, among them the "every
> restriction is a fee" (possibly for multiple values of "every") which
> you are defending here

I'm defending "non-money payments can be fees" which is a belief about
the DFSG which seems to have been commonly accepted by developers at
least since 1999.

> Analysis of the debian-legal@ archive can show that there are such
> people, therefore DFSG revisionists as previously defined exist.
> QED. HTH.
>
> (Hopefully even you will be able to understand that this description is
> not rigorous in the mathematical sense, so please refrain from nitpick.)

It's not only not rigorous, if it was written as maths, it would be:
unreasonable + unproven + unfounded + much hand-waving = conclusion.

> >If not, stop trolling.
> Accusing people who oppose your views of "trolling" shows lack of
> dialectic skills.

Just intolerance of people who try to prove by assertion.
Remember: In God We Trust - All Others Bring Data.

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Marco d'Itri

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(Msg. 18) Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:00 am
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mjr DeleteThis @phonecoop.coop wrote:

>So if it didn't hinder your participation in debian, it's probably not
I am not sure if you are accusing me of being a liar or you are just
being stupid. Anyway, thank you for reminding me why discussing with you
is a waste of time.

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(Msg. 19) Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:40 am
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Marco d'Itri <md RemoveThis @Linux.IT> wrote:
> mjr RemoveThis @phonecoop.coop wrote:
> >So if it didn't hinder your participation in debian, it's probably not
> I am not sure if you are accusing me of being a liar or you are just
> being stupid. Anyway, thank you for reminding me why discussing with you
> is a waste of time.

I'm not accusing anyone of lying (although I think you're mistaken
about who are "DFSG-revisionists"). Maybe I'm being stupid, but I
don't understand why relocating around New Year is relevant to having
no solid examples of the claimed revisionists by June next year.
Non-money fees are still fees and have been regarded as breaking the
DFSG since before debian-legal was created AFAICT.

Of course it's a waste of time to discuss if you have no evidence to
the contrary. Attempting proof by assertion is always a waste of time.
Like I posted months ago "How about the next person to make an
irrational claim without evidence does some research themselves?"

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(Msg. 20) Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:20 pm
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:25:06AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Russ Allbery <rra RemoveThis @debian.org> wrote: [...]
> > The DFSG are hereby amended to add the following additional guideline:
> > 10. No Required Contribution of Changes [...]
> > 11. No Required Identity Disclosure [...]
>
> I think this is a bad idea because:
> - it is introducing redundancy into the guidelines - these are already
> covered by DFSGs 1 and 5;

Which is a problem, why?

Clarity never hurt anyone.

> - it makes the guidelines longer, so will make checking packages
> against the guidelines more tedious;

I don't think so; on the contrary, actually. These tests are used now
already anyway; formalizing them will just make things much clearer.

> - it seems to be pandering to literalists in a similar way to the
> Editorial Changes GR and that hasn't really ended those arguments;

Sorry, but that's not true. The EC GR did indeed not end those arguments
_immediately_, but they haven't been brought up anywhere I can see in a
while.

> - I think that the second addition disallows things like pseudonyms,
> which I think we have accepted in the past.

That could probably be fixed by some wording changes, I suppose.

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