It might be useful to develop a list (some additonal field in a database?) that describes _which_ of the D.F.S.Guidelines are offended by each of the approx. 300 non-free packages. In carrying out such an exercise, several categories of non-free can probably be easily recognized: standards documents appear to be one such category. The existence of categories might help the project identify free, _technical_, solutions that provide important services to users without muddying Debian's archives. For example, the docs might be replaced with a single HTML page with suitable links, and/or some kind of wget script for those who want the docs on their system, and/or some more complicated script for those who really want the ability to integrate various sets of docs with dwww. A list of DFSG-exceptions by each of the non-free packages might also be useful input for a potential donor of mirror services; e.g., a particular organization might (for some reason) be willing to host packages that failed certain of the DFSGuidelines, but not to host just any non-free package. Susan
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