Re: Having a non-free and a non-cd branch?
Enrique Zanardi wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 02:56:34PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> > (Alex Yukhimets) wrote:
> [...]
> > > Another reason is that according to Debian "Social contract" (see
> > > www.debian.org) this distribution is about "free" software and all the
> > > non-free packages should be "punished" by not including them into
> > > Debian Official CD.
> >
> > Now I REALLY don't like that idea. I think that companies should be
> > rewarded for distributing there programs freely even if they are not
> > willing to distribute them under the GPL license.
>
> non-free doesn't mean non-GPL. Please, read the Debian Free Software
> Guidelines, there is our definition of "free" and "non-free" software.
Sorry, I didn't mean to say non-GPL. Want I mean to say is that I think
companies should be rewarded for distributing there programs freely even
if they are not complete free by debian's standard.
>
> > I think that the new K Desktop is a GREAT idea and should be worked into
> > debian however that will never happen if you insist on keeping this
> > policy.
>
> KDE is in Debian's "contrib." section. It's not in "non-free". "contrib."
> section is distributed in our official CDs.
And it is in the contrib. section because it relays on non-free
software... Thus it can never officially itergrated into debian because
of the Qt library KDE uses. I think that that is a shame.
I would like to be able to purchase a debian cd and get as much working
as possible without having to download any thing over the internet. I
know some CD have parts of the nonuser section however many don't.
By making a separate non-cd branch and having it part of the official
release it will allow it to appear on all cds. Like in the contrib.
section the "official" system doesn't have to really on it however it
should be there if someone wants it.
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