Re: The "Free" vs. "Non-Free" issue
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > The right way to get rid of non-free is to replace each package in
> > non-free in non-free with a free equivalent.
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:00:44PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Of course, the problem is that there are always more non-free packages
> to be uploaded. When first I proposed the elimination of non-free,
> there was much whining about Netscape. Now I hear much whining about
> Japanese PDFs.
This is bad, why?
> Perhaps a logical place to start is, effective immediately, completely
> and totally ban the introduction of any new package into non-free.
And your basis for this is the document of which the DFSG is part of?
Out of curiosity, what were your reasons for supporting a non-free
package?
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Raul
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