Re: Should sauerbraten-wake6 be part of main?
Hi Bas,
> It is not in the interest of our users to put non-free files in main.
> Not even a single one. For those who don't mind using them, we put them
> in non-free, so they can get them anyway. For "extremists"[1] like RMS
> we don't put them in main, so they don't have to see them. (And,
> because we want main to be feature-rich, we more often remove the
> non-free parts and put the rest in main, which is great, too.)
>
> [1] That sounds negative, but I don't mean it that way; I'm in that
> group myself.
BWT, RMS is caring only by freeness of program sources. This is obvious not
only from FSF definition of free software, but also from their guideline for
Free System Distributions (see section "Non-functional Data" at [1]).
And this is one of few points where I disagree with him. So I always use DFSG
as a criteria of data freeness. Why should we apply different standards for
programs and for multimedia files, books, documentation, etc?..
[1] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
Just a small note. Sorry for off-topic.
Best wishes,
Boris
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