Re: Migration of non-free packages to testing

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Subject: Re: Migration of non-free packages to testing
From: Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:51:31 +0100
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tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:

> What makes you think I don't want .debs of non-free software to exist?
> I don't want Debian to be officially associated with them, that's
> all.

A bit of anecdotal evidence: I've seen arguments like, "GraphViz is
part of Debian, so it has to be free software" *many* times.

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