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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ui: 'package->recutils' serializes the source field.
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 09:18:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160813131816.GB13976@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1_immp2-c-CqBG9+BByzR=h_t-yraDqrODkCTSKpXbaVLcow@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 03:00:42PM +0200, David Craven wrote:
> Can you please explain why you don't feel competent? It's written in plain
> English, not AES encrypted English, so I have difficulty understanding
> why people think they can't read it and form an opinion about it (not this
> issue in particular, but more general any issue that comes up), and I don't
> just mean you either, but a few people have said this...

Personally, after having read it the first time, I wouldn't have
expected web browsers to be excluded from a free distribution due to
their recommendation of non-free "add-ons". I don't disagree with this
interpretation; it simply would not have occurred to me. It requires
some imagination and some time thinking about the issues and the
particularities of the software we use.

So, I think the language of the text and its interpretation are actually
not obvious. And in this case, the point of the patch in question can be
achieved by another method, so I personally didn't want to spend time
interpreting the FSDG when I could spend it on something else.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-13 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-04 20:49 How to get the package metadata as structured data? David Craven
2016-08-04 21:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-04 22:03   ` Cook, Malcolm
2016-08-05 10:17     ` David Craven
2016-08-05 11:04       ` David Craven
2016-08-05 12:40         ` Aljosha Papsch
2016-08-05 14:50         ` Philippe Ombredanne
2016-08-05 14:58           ` [PATCH] ui: 'package->recutils' serializes the source field David Craven
2016-08-06 12:35             ` Alex Kost
2016-08-06 12:46               ` David Craven
2016-08-06 15:00               ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-07 10:26                 ` David Craven
2016-08-07 11:15                   ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-07 11:19                     ` David Craven
2016-08-07 12:12                       ` David Craven
2016-08-07 13:27                       ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-07 21:33                         ` David Craven
2016-08-08  0:15                           ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-08 11:20                             ` David Craven
2016-08-08 17:53                               ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-08 18:12                                 ` David Craven
2016-08-08 19:07                                 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-08 21:09                                   ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-08 22:58                                     ` David Craven
2016-08-08 23:56                                       ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-09  0:18                                         ` David Craven
2016-08-10 10:12                                           ` David Craven
2016-08-10 11:30                                             ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-10 11:38                                               ` David Craven
2016-08-10 11:46                                                 ` David Craven
2016-08-10 12:06                                                 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-10 12:15                                                   ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-08-10 12:27                                                     ` David Craven
2016-08-10 12:53                                                       ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-08-10 13:23                                                         ` David Craven
2016-08-10 13:42                                                         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-10 14:13                                                           ` David Craven
2016-08-11 14:38                                                             ` Alex Kost
2016-08-11 16:19                                                               ` David Craven
2016-08-11 18:15                                                                 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-12  8:22                                                                 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-11 16:42                                                               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-12  8:33                                                                 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-12  8:41                                                                   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-12 10:05                                                                     ` David Craven
2016-08-13  7:46                                                                       ` Alex Kost
2016-08-13 13:00                                                                         ` David Craven
2016-08-13 13:18                                                                           ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-08-14 16:00                                                                             ` Alex Kost
2016-08-10 14:25                                                           ` Thompson, David
2016-08-10 17:56                                                     ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-11 10:15                             ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-11 10:21                               ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-11 11:06                                 ` David Craven
2016-08-11 11:41                                   ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-11 11:46                                   ` David Craven
2016-08-10 11:46           ` How to get the package metadata as structured data? Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-10 12:14             ` Catonano
2016-08-10 12:52               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-10 23:40                 ` Catonano

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