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Re: stability of non-free?



Philippe Troin writes:
-> 
-> On Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:38:54 +0100 Christian Schwarz 
-> (schwarz@monet.m.isar.de) wrote:
-> 
-> > On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, joost witteveen wrote:
[ a) non-free directories under stable and unstable ]
-> > But if we consider non-free stuff _NOT_ as part of the Debian system, we
-> > should propable do the following:
[ b) non-free directory with stable/unstable directories ]

-> I think that non-free is definitely part of the Debian system, and
-> favors option 1 (free/non-free inside the debian stable/unstable hierarchy).
-> What do you think ?

Putting non-free under stable and unstable would make things thoat
much more non-obvious for CD makers, it would seem, as well as
semi-officially sanctioning the non-free stuff, which is against the
Debian philosophy.  I believe I remember reading a blurb somewhere
that while we recognize the need for the non-free stuff to get the job
done, we as an organization don't agree with the licensing sceme, and
therefore, it's there for the convenience of Debian users.

-Larry

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