On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:43:58PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > > That example was carefully selected. You don't *get* another chance to > > take a picture of a lightning bolt. They only last a second or two, > > and every one is unique. That photo is the only one that will ever > > exist. (jpeg-compressed is no good when a non-lossy format is > > available, though). > > My camera saves a JPEG of a lightning bolt. I distribute that in the > belief that it's the only version of the picture in existence, and > nobody argues over whether it's source code. Later on, I find that I'd > accidently left my camera in the mode where it saves raw files as well. > I add that to the next upload of the package containing the picture. > > Are older versions of the package now non-free? Strictly yes, being mistaken is not an excuse. Just like if you discover that old versions of the package contained i386 binaries without source, the old versions are non-free. Also note that in both cases, they were *always* non-free (I really shouldn't have to explain this). The status has not changed, it's just that we weren't aware of it before. We probably wouldn't *worry* about this however, as the archive now contains source to the relevant file, so it's neither a legal nor an ethical issue. (It may be a technical issue that 'apt-get source' won't give you the right thing in the last stable release, but that's somebody else's problem). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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