This one time, at band camp, Ed Cogburn said: > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 12:44pm, Rafael Rodríguez wrote: > > I don't know why some of you are making all that noise... if I have > > understood correctly, non-free will be made available after sarge release > > (which is supposed to happen within 3 or 4 weeks)... so... why bother the > > developers instead of thaking them for all the work they've already made? > > > Just trying to be helpful and point out to those developers that's there no > reason to hold back non-free at all. There isn't a problem, except the one > they are conjuring up. Besides, according to Goswin in the post you > responded to, it could be 3 years, not 3 weeks, by his logic (which I > disagree with as well). In order to be reasonably helpful, why not do something instead of demanding that the volunteers who have very nicely, and on their own time, do more for you? It seems to me that you can: A) host non-free yourself B) Go through all of the licenses in all of the packages in non-free (with the help of counsel, if need be) and determine what are redistributable by parties not Debian. Afterwards, submit a report to the amd64 archive maintainers. C) Have a little patience. Pick any combination of the above, but only if you are actually interested in seeing this get done. If that's not the motivation, we can all listen to more reasons why the nice folks already shouldering all the load should get to do more. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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