Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 13:17, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:21:14PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
> > > I think it's interesting that even in the context of a thread on
> > > removing our mostly useless non-free section
> >
> > It's useless for software, not for documentation. We have no other place
> > for standards documents that may not be distributed in modified form.
> > Basically, there are three options:
> >
> > 1. Keep non-free around, but remove all non-documentation packages
> > 2. Grant exceptions for situations where it makes no sense to be strict
> > 3. Remove the documentation packages
>
> You forgot the obvious:
>
> 0. Leave everything as it is and stop the soapbox^W^W^W^W
Exactly, and spend all the newly acquired time making non-free even more
unnecessary than it already is right now instead. I think the thread about
the pine -> mutt transition provides a good example of what can be done in
this area.
Cheers,
Yven
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Yven Johannes Leist - leist@beldesign.de
http://www.yven.beldesign.de
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