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Re: stability of non-free?



Christian Schwarz wrote:
: 
: On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Chris Fearnley wrote:
: > 'Heiko Schlittermann wrote:'
: > >        stable ---+---- free     (or supported, or ...)
: > >                  +---- contrib
: > >                  +---- non-free
vs.
: > that I'll add my "no" to the chorus:  NO!  Hiding non-free under other
: > directories make it harder for CD vendors to notice it and avoid
: > problems.  The suggestion of having stable/unstable under the non-free
: > directory is the only acceptable change.  Its main problem is who will
...
: 
: OK, but then I would suggest something like
: 
: debian -+----- free -----+- stable
:                          +- unstable
:                          +- frozen


But, who is expected to need a faster, cleaner overview?  A CDROM vendor
(how many are there) or a potential FTP archive user?  And if somebody
likes to burn it's _own_ CD (for _personal_ use, read: instead of 
messing with myriads of diskettes), I'd assume that he/she would include non-free
anyway.

For a CDROM vendor it should be sufficient, if it's made very clear, that
there're copyright restrictions on non-free and probabley on contrib.

    Heiko
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