Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:32:16PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> > > > I think that's rediculous. Education is not a smokescreen, and you can't
> > > > argue that there will never be free data available for quake2 (or know
> > > > for sure that there isn't already).
>
> It doesn't matter whether there will be free date, or even whether there
> *is* free data: it matters whether it's packaged for Debian.
>
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 03:01:02AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > Ok, I'm going to upload libgaming. Nothing yet has been created for it,
> > but it is possible. Should I upload it to contrib?
>
> If nothing's been created for it, why would you want to upload it to the
> distribution at all?
>
> The "Deb" in Debian does stand for "Deborah", not "Debating Society",
> right?
And I thought Debian stood for promoting free software creation. Putting
quake2 in contrib and tacking on that "purchase the non-free datafiles"
message is just crap.
Ben
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