Re: non-DFSG section and CD distributers
Short and simply, I second this suggestion. Anyone else agree?
> I have been talking to an upstream maintainer and the question of how Debian
> is distributed came up. I downloaded the "debian-cd" package but I am a bit
> confused as to what is put on the CD - it seems to build a binary CD and
> optionally a source CD. However it seems to include all three trees as
> neither contrib or non-free seemed to be excluded.
>
> In the process I came to the conclusion that "non-free" is a misleading term
> - maybe it should be renamed "non-dfsg". A fair number of packages in there
> are free, just not as "free" as we would like them to be. I'll probably
> get flamed by lots of GPL people, but I don't have a problem with someone
> who wants to protect their hard work.
>
> Adrian
>
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