Re: Screw non-free.
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> non-free will become more important in the future:
>
> With Debians position regarding documentation licenses (especially the
> GFDL), the documentation (e.g. man pages and info files) for many
> important free programs in Debian will have to go into non-free after
> the release of sarge.
This hasn't been resolved, and it seems to be an unlikely thing to
happen.
But this is clearly a non-argument:
> With a separate non-free project, it might e.g. become more difficult to
> keep the gcc package in main in sync with the man and info pages of gcc
> in non-free.
The syncing problem begins as soon as there are separate source
packages. If the GFDL issue cannot be resolved in a satisfactory
manner, source packages would have to be split into different archives.
It doesn't seem to matter much if the distribution infrastructure is the
same or not.
But the non-free/GFDL connection is an important one. I talked to some
developers and they think that the GFDL banishment was welcomed by some
because it made non-free more worthy of including in the project (thus
promoting non-free software). I'm not sure how much doublethink is
involved here, though.
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