RE: General Resolution: Removing non-free
It's true that SSL support exists for Mozilla. However, I have not
built it into the Debian version because I live in the United States,
and Debian-Legal felt it was still not prudent to build here.
A greek developer-to-be is in the Queue waiting to be vetted. Once
this is done, he will take over primary responsibility for Mozilla,
and will be able to build the SSL parts.
-Brent
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Goerzen [mailto:jgoerzen@complete.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 4:47 PM
> To: Chris Lawrence
> Cc: Debian-Devel List
> Subject: Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free
>
>
> SSL support exists for Mozilla.
>
> You are dangling a red herring here. Nobody will ever think that
> there is nothing in non-free that is of use to someone somewhere. We
> have to do it sometime. Let's do it now.
>
> -- John
>
> Chris Lawrence <quango@watervalley.net> writes:
>
>
> > I think this is a perfectly sound proposal... once the software in
> > non-free is substantially replaced by what we can distribute within
> > Debian. This battle should be fought when we have a
> Mozilla that does
> > everything Netscape does (and can be hosted on a US
> mirror... Mozilla
> > is pretty worthless to me w/o SSL support), when we have an
> animation
> > player that does everything xanim does, when we have a PDF
> viewer that
> > does everything acroread does (IIRC, acroread is the only PDF viewer
> > that supports finding text in documents), etc. Fighting it now will
> > only hurt us and (if this proposal succeeds) our users, not
> to mention
> > our image. Debian may not be a popularity contest (package
> > "popularity-contest" notwithstanding ;-), but we have
> better things to
> > do with our time (like, um, releasing potato) than fighting among
> > ourselves and pissing off users and potential users.
> >
> >
> > Chris
> > --
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