Re: Clarifications
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > Therefore, the project's goal was to grab and integrate as much
> > software as possible for our users, and the only criteria for
> > packaging a piece of software were
> >
> > (1) "Is someone willing to take the trouble to maintain it?", and
> >
> > (2) "Can we legally distribute it from our ftp site?"
> >
> > I still think that these make pretty good criteria.
>
> <aol> me too </aol>
I also seem to remember that non-free and main were originally split for
the *practical* reason that you couldn't legally put non-free on a CD (you
still cannot!!). This criteria evolved into a 'freeness' issue and then
into the DSFG.
Jason
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