On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 04:41:13PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > I think the proper way of handling this is to allow sources into main as > long as: (a) all the code is free (binary's thus go to main/contrib), > and (b) at least one of their binaries is for main, and (c) they don't > need anything but stuff in main to be built. I agree. The freeness of software in contrib has never been in doubt; that distinguishes it from software in non-free. We have a policy (somewhere) that if a source package produces both DFSG-free and non-free binary packages, the source package must be classified as non-free. This policy was adopted to ensure that the main distribution as source AND as binaries remains 100% DFSG-free. That reasoning should not be extended to contrib, and if it is we need to cut it out. -- G. Branden Robinson | A committee is a life form with six or Debian GNU/Linux | more legs and no brain. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Robert Heinlein roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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