Re: non-free and "cd-ok", again
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 07:59:53PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
> Why should these goals be opposed to each other? And why should it be
> so difficult to actually do both, especially since making life of CD
> vendors easier would simply be a matter of setting up two directories
> on the FTP site which distinguish between "distributable on CD" and
> "non-distributable on CD"?
Because "Distributable on CD" often depends on if you only have other free
stuff on the CD, or include commercial programs. Trust me, I've tried to
make a list before. It is severely non-trivial and I've given up on making
the effort to do it.
> And why not consider this as a service to the possible customer and end
> user of such CDs? I for one would not like to see things simply not
> included just because a lazy vendor didn't bother evaluating the contents.
> This should IMHO be easily avoidable and i don't see why this should be so
> difficult?
Because there is nobody here who wants to make the list. As as been
mentioned, there are issues as to exactly what is distributable and under
what context. Everyone from Debian who has ever tried to create such a list
has given it up in disgust. You're more than welcome to try (but it can't
be Debian's "official" position as to what is distributable and what isn't).
I expect you'll quickly come to the conclusion that it isn't worth it as
well.
--
Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net>
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