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Re: Counter Proposal (was Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free)



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I second this proposal.

In article <[🔎] 20000608193334.L552@taz.net.au>, Craig Sanders wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:31:21AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
>> A brave assertion.  But then you have to think about this carefully-crafted
>> document and wonder why it doesn't read like this:
>> 
>>   5. We Will Support Programs That Don't Meet Our Free-Software Standards
>> 
>>   We will maintain "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our FTP archive for
>>   this software.  We encourage CD manufacturers to read the licenses of
>>   software packages in these directories and determine if they can
>>   distribute that software on their CDs.  We will support the use of
>>   non-free software in Debian, and we will provide infrastructure (such as
>>   our bug-tracking system and mailing lists) for non-free software
>>   packages.
>
>nice idea. i propose that we modify the Social Contract so that it does
>say that.
>
>Anyone willing to second this?
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