Re: About sponsoring non-free packages

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:05:52PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>   I'm just telling that asking for a sponsor for non-free
>   packages is not helping the project.

If the package is useful it is helping the users.

>   I wonder if such people really know that Debian is not only about
>   technique but also philosophy.  It is the role of sponsors to check
>   that.

And banning non-free sponsored packages will ensure that sponsors check
that the newbie maintainer is philosophically in line with Debian?
That's not non sequitur but it ain't too far off either :)

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