Re: About sponsoring non-free packages
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:04:10PM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> I propose that we do not sponsor people for non-free packages.
> People that we want to join us and seeking sponsors for
> non-free package are showing that they do not understand
> our philosophy and dedication to Free Software.
One of my initial packages was non-free (still is, although I hold out
hope for a licence change at some point). I suggest that a better policy
is closer to this:
New maintainers applying as packagers should contribute something to
main as part of their tasks and skills check. This could either be new
packages or adopting existing ones. They may submit work they've done
in contrib or non-free, which may help the AM judge their packaging
abilities, but this work should not be considered sufficient to pass
the check.
I wouldn't have objected to this when I was applying - I had packages in
main too.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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