Re: About sponsoring non-free packages
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:58:23PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> 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 :)
Well, putting two and two together, I think the original post was actually
regarding a proposed package that allowed source to be distributed with
debian only, which would still put it in non-free, but at least the upstream
authors are prepared to negotiate their code's liberty.
So all may not be as bad as it sounds.
Pete
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