On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:26:08PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> What about '*the* Debian Distribution'? Would you consider non-free as
> being part of that? (As opposed to 'Debian's main distribution')
In the context of the social contract, it clearly isn't: it's defined as
100% free software that doesn't depend on any piece of non free software;
contrib and non-free as defined in the social contract obviously don't
meet that criteria, so aren't a part of it.
I think that's a fairly obscure and pedantic sort of reading though,
and it obviously causes needless argument and confusion, though.
I don't think it's useful to talk about "the Debian distribution" in a way
that doesn't apply both to just main, and to main+contrib+non-free+non-US.
I wouldn't make statements like "the Debian distribution includes
non-free software" or "the Debian distribution doesn't include any
non-free software"; I'd qualify them instead like "Debian includes
non-free software in it's "non-free" component".
Cheers,
aj
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