On Wed Aug 05 19:13, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Last 7 years I use GNU/Linux and know that, for example, in Russia the > > Opera browser is very popular in GNU/Linux Community. Unfortunately, not > > always I can see this browser in the non-free repos. Well, there is a > > question: whether Opera is included to your distro and if not - how we can > > fix this problem? We are ready for any discussions, technical help or > > agreement, if necessary. > > As explained by Ana, Debian is about making a free operating system, > so we usually try to remove software from non-free when we have free > alternatives, not add more. That said, I am (I know, disown me now) a big Opera user, I think it's by far the best browser and it's a shame it's not Free software. I would be prepared to maintain it in non-free, however Santiago's caveats all apply. We would need a licence which allowed it to be redistributed by Debian and used by all of our users. The reference for this is Debian Policy 2.2.3 and 2.3: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-non-free Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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