Re: Organizing "non-free"

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

Brian:
> This is one of the things I would like to improve about non-free's
> organization.  It would be a "Good Thing" (tm) in my opinion to at least
> differentiate between "non-free to distribute" and "non-free to use".

There are shades and overlaps here. This is why I think it's good to stick
it all in one directory and make _a_file_, as Marek suggested, with an
explanation of why stuff is there.

> CD-Rom makers could then just leave out the "non-free to distribute"
> stuff and press the rest.

By the way, just FYI, we don't _guarantee_ that there are no non-free programs
in the rest of the distribution. The entire liability of pressing a CD is on
the CD manufacturer.

> To be honest, I never really understood the
> wisdom in allowing FTP but not CD distribution

Presumably the FTP site does not charge a fee for retrieval. FTP
provides the option to retrieve files on an individual basis, which CD
does not. Those two reasons are why we can get away with placing some
stuff up for FTP but not on a CD.

	Thanks

	Bruce