Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 02:05:34PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Adam McKenna wrote:
> > I don't know if the "free software community" was disturbed. Maybe RMS and
> > the FSF were disturbed, and I understand Debian is under significant
> > political pressure from them to remove non-free (and I believe that is the
> > reason for this proposal)
>
> We are not under pressure to remove non-free. What the FSF would like to see
> is a homepage which doesn't mention non-free, a place where people can go
> and look at our distribution and documentation without encountering anything
> that is not free. The same holds for our (FTP) archive.
>
> That is different from removing non-free, and can be accomplished in
> different manors:
> * remove non-free
> * create a `pure' version of www.debian.org and ftp.debian.org
> * move non-free to something like debian-nonfree.org or whatever you name it.
If that's the case, then my point still stands -- this resolution was brought
about due to the desire to appease the FSF, and does not have the interests of
the free software community (which is not the same thing as the FSF) at heart.
--Adam
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