Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:21:22PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> > I would be really interested in your response to the part of my post you
> > silently skipped, namely : 
> > 
> >   Sure, but please tell me, if we are going to move non-free stuff to
> >   non-free.org, exactly how will that change anything over the current
> >   situation in regard with packages with problematic licences ?
> > 
> > Unless naturally you have no response to this question, and there really
> > no benefit at all in having non-free on non-free.org over having it in
> > the debian servers.
> 
> The response is easy: it won't have our name on it anymore, and we
> won't be devoting our resources to its support.

Which ressources ? Assuredly not the small time the ftp-masters pass on
it ? Assuredly not the minimal bandwidth requirement ? 

And this naturally doesn't count time spent by DD to work on this
alternative infrastructure they could have used working on something
else.

Friendly,

Sven Luther