Re: seperating out non-free
A big problem is that whenever someone mentions something like this, people
come out of the woodwork screaming about how Debian shouldn't even so much as
acknowledge the existance of non-free software because in their eyes that is
tantamount to encouraging its use. Ivan, I completely agree with you. Debian
may not have non-free software in it by default, but it is the responsibility
of us to make sure that our users have the _choice_ of installing whatever
they want using our packaging system. The more we stress that users have the
choice of installing non-free software, and stress that it is non-free for a
reason, we affirm our commitment to Free Software while maintaining a
distribution that is both technically superior but also offers the most
choices of software pre-packaged.
Andrew
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 04:07:46PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> ok, this is how I look at the whole thing.
>
> 1> non-free should not be ditched or hidden
> 2> non-free does need to be seperated a bit more from main
> 3> non-free should not be listed by default in apt's sources.list file
> 4> www.debian.org should have information on how to add non-free and non-US
> to one's apt/sources.list file.
>
> One of the great things about debian is the choices to run stuff..there's
> so much to chose from...non-free should not be removed for this reason..but
> it should be seperated a bit more as to stress the "freeness" of Debian
> GNU/Linux...
>
> The important thing is to not hide non-free...nor ditch it. In fact
> we should put up more information about it..this will give us more
> opportunities to stress that it's not part of the Debian distribution
> because the packages are considered non-free...
>
> my 2 cents..
>
> Ivan
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