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Re: Discussion - non-free software removal



On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:19:16PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:13:18AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > Heck, the cornerstone of the community, regardless of the fact this change
> > would likely not impact most of the users... perhaps we should make a poll
> > among users, like Joey did for the security upgrades? Their opinion counts
> > as much as the opinion of maintainers like me, who aren't involved in
> > maintaining anything in non-free.
> 
> That seems reasonable, as our social contract is with the Free Software
> Community (according to http://www.debian.org/social_contract) and not
> just among ourselves.

Ehm, yes. So what? It's not with the non-free Software Community as you
stated yourself. So I don't see any morally dictated need for this.
That said, asking users is never a bad move I guess.

Michael



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