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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website
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Ivan Zaigralin |
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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website |
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Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:51:01 -0700 |
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I'd like to register my dislike of the subjective approach to the name
similarity issue as well. Not that it doesn't work. I think it works OK,
because this is not a particularly big deal to begin with. FreeSlack project,
for example, has always been flexible in that respect, as in, fully
cooperative. But it would be better to have an objective criterion, like for
example:
Cannot use nonfree distro name or trademark as a substring in a free distro
name.
A rule like this would prevent "Slackware Libre", but not "FreeSlack". But
more crucially, it would be fair, and no one would ever feel like an
individual reviewer at FSF is yanking their chain just for the fun of it.
On Friday, March 23, 2018 13:36:59 bill-auger wrote:
> as i understand, the final issue preventing free-slack from being
> endorsed is the word "slack" in their name - which is in conflict with
> the "no name confusion" criteria
>
> so one other thing to point out for the sake of equality is that the
> connochaetos website refers to the repos it hosts as "The slack-n-free repo"
>
> "free-slack"
> "slack-n-free"
>
> is it just me? - im not seeing a huge difference there - personally, my
> opinion would be that neither are particularly offensive - "slack" is
> not exactly "slackware" - just as i see no problem with the free-dora
> repos hosted by FSFLA because "dora" is not "fedora" - although these
> are all clearly intended to remind the reader that "this is the freed
> version of that well-known one"
>
> o/c these are not my rules to make; but please let us apply the same
> rules equally to all
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- [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, bill-auger, 2018/03/21
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, bill-auger, 2018/03/21
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, KRT Listmaster, 2018/03/21
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/03/21
- [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website (was: what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?), Henry Jensen, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, KRT Listmaster, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, bill-auger, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, Jason Self, 2018/03/24
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, bill-auger, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website,
Ivan Zaigralin <=
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, KRT Listmaster, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/03/23
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Freeslack website, bill-auger, 2018/03/23
Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, Jason Self, 2018/03/21
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/03/21
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, Jason Self, 2018/03/22
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, Donald Robertson, 2018/03/22
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, bill-auger, 2018/03/22
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] what of the distros that have already asked for consideration or have been partially evaluated?, bill-auger, 2018/03/22