On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:41:03AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > 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. Sure; but the free software community might see benefits in making non-free software available -- eg, making the Debian system more useful in more situations, and thus getting more feedback and contributions from a wider base of people, and thus improving the Debian system itself. If you're assuming the answer to this is whatever RMS would say (viz, "non-free software is *EVIL*"), you might want to try considering the opinion of the "Open Source Community", instead. The answers should be the same. OTOH, the Debian developer body is probably the best reference for "the Free Software Community" you're going to get. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''
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