Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:34:37AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> No it does not. Read the social contract. Contrib is not part of the
> Debian system.
So is non-free. Makes me wonder what this effort now is good for.
> Contrib does not necessarily depend upon non-free. I do not therefore
> make any specific proposal with regard to contrib at this time.
But it certainly means removing all packages that are in contrib because they
depends on something non-free.
> All packages currently in non-free in woody shall be removed.
I'm sorry, but IMO this is ridiculous.
> I have news for you, Adam. Debian was founded upon principles of Free
> Software. We have operated under them ever since. We do not have to
> bow to marketing pressures like people such as RedHat do -- we can do
> what is RIGHT -- morally, ethically, and technically. Because we do
> not have to be concerned about user counts.
But it's still difficult to make it technically right without non-free.
There simply IS software that is has no free replacement.
> Perhaps that was the case when it was packaged. Today, non-free is
> basically cruft.
Please prove that!
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for free software or else wouldn't spend so much
time on Debian and other projects. But we cannot abandon non-free unless we
are able to replace it!
If your are able to prove that you can replace all the software in question
we can talk again.
Michael
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