[Klug-general] Debian question

[George Prowse]

Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi George,
> 
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:24:35PM +0100, George Prowse wrote:
>> Debian should say they're relaxing their rules, that would help. Then go 
>> on a big PR exercise
> 
> Debian would need to rewrite their social contract to allow this.
> It would be better to just remove the Mozilla software from the main
> repository.

I dont see anything wrong with rewriting their social contract, it 
obviously needs a bit of an upheaval if they cant have Firefox and have 
to go all the way to rebrand it.

Would anyone leave if they rewrote it to allow it? I doubt it.

> I don't think you understand the issue; if you don't like Debian's
> philosophy then it would be better to use a different distribution
> than to suggest that Debian change in this fundamental way.  They
> don't all have to be the same, and there is no objective "best"
> answer because this isn't a technical matter.
> 
It's not THAT fundamental, no-one would notice if you ammended it 
slightly, no-one is saying get rid of it.