Re: Calling on Fedora/RedHat ML managers to clean up Fedora-list.

[Andrew Haley <aph redhat com>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:10:14PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> It surely was on-topic here to talk about whether unfree binary blobs
>> should be included in Fedora.
> 
> I think it was. But the million message circular arguments about GPL 
> interpretation were most definitely not, and the result of that was that
> everyone put the participants, subject or even the entire list on kill

Sure, that's true, and perhaps we need a little more taste and restraint.
However, there were some untruths about the GPL that needed to be
corrected on the list.

>> Do we really want to say that if any ethical question arises during
>> discussion on Fedora lists, people may not address it?
> 
> Do you really want everyone to unsubscribe and run something else.

Their call.  I'm not sure I really understand the problem; a thread gets
boring and repetitive, so can it.

Andrew.