Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org
ruud@ruud.org (Ruud de Rooij) writes:
> md@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes:
>
> > On Jun 24, Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> >
> > >> What about software depending on GNUPG?
> > >> My c-nocem package is free and GNUPG is free too.
> >
> > >Marco, please note that non-us is orthogonal to main/contrib/non-free.
> > It should be, but currently is not.
> > I have been forced to put my c-nocem package in contrib because it
> > depends on GnuPG.
> > That means good free software depending on other good (but not
> > exportable from the US) free software is forced to stay out of main.
>
> IMHO, the proper place for packages like that is not contrib, but
> non-US/main.
Why non-US? The software does not underly export restrictions. It
should just go to main.
MfG,
Goswin
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