Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 04:19:02AM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:13:27PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > while i agree in general with what you're saying, two specifics above
> > give the false impression that the non-free alternative is better than
> > the free. the first is "Pine versus Mutt" - mutt is heaps better than
> > pine. second is "Qmail versus [...] Postfix" - postfix is better than
> > qmail. 
> 
> I haven't used postfix, but I feel obligated to point out (yet again) that
> the only reason qmail isn't in main is because the author does not allow
> modified binaries to be distributed, and insists on a particular directory
> structure for binary distributions. 
> 

So the author deliberately refuses to support the free software community.

Fine.  So we don't distribute his software.

Debian is about building a _community_.  The DFSG outlines the
requirements software must meet to be part of that community.

djb doesn't want to help the community --- he believes that he is
right, and everyone else is wrong.  So he can't be part of it.

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