“Here are the answers to the questions we asked Ian Murdock,
original Debian instigator and current President/CEO of Progeny
Linx Systems….“
“What do you think about the current political problems with KDE
in debian, the possible removal of non-free, and any other
‘political’ issues you care to comment on?”
“I tend to be more interested in technical rather than political
issues, so to be perfectly honest, I don’t have too many opinions
to share with you. One thing I can say about the non-free removal
debate is that many are arguing that changing the social contract
would be akin to changing the founding principles of Debian, which
isn’t entirely true. The social contract came along well into
Debian’s lifetime. It captures a set of principles that evolved
over time, and is really a snapshot of that set of principles taken
at the time it was written. Perhaps it’s time to evolve further.
Perhaps it isn’t. I’ll leave that question to the Debian
folks.”