On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:25:00AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:24:18AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:02:58AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > I don't think that it will. Two years ago, people were opposed to removing > > > non-free because of Netscape. Now there's opposition because of xpdf. Two > > > years from now there will be something else, I'm sure; non-free software is > > > not going away. We can give it a nice nudge, though. > > As noted elsewhere, xpdf isn't free enough for non-free anymore. > If I understood correctly, most of xpdf is free enough for main; if built > with a real Motif, it's non-free only; and if it includes certain character > sets, then it's also non-free only. But I'm not exceptionally familiar with > the situation. Whoops, brainfart -- I somehow translated 'xpdf' into 'acroread', completely forgetting about the xpdf non-free components that had just come up in this thread. Pay no attention to the man behind the keyboard. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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