Re: Can we do without non-free?
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
>
> Joey Hess wrote:
>
> >
> > Those who don't want to work on non-free are welcome not to. There are
> > packages in non-free that have no counterpart in main.
> >
>
> Here is my point: we want to distribute FREE software. Why do we need to have
> a non-free section? What packages from non-free do we really need?
The point is that someof the packages in non-free debian users want to be
able to use - and haveing them debianised makes it easier for them to do
so. I think that to simply say "We are not going to let you get at
debianised versions of non0-free packages" would be counter-productive,
and would probably send users to other dists...
Yours,
Matthew
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