Re: Seconded, sponsored. (was Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free)

[tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Fabrice Gautier <gautier@email.enst.fr> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:09:37AM -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > 
> > Are we allowed to remove things in main which are only used by
> > non-free, and are no longer useful outside that context?
> 
> Free Software are not prohibited to be used for comercial or non-free
> use or private use. This Free Software being a library, old or not doesn't
> matter. 
> 
> It's free software, it has been packaged, and is currently in
> debian. Why would you want to remove it?

Because it is unmaintained and unmaintainable.