On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:44:57PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Your ideological and ethically "good" may damage some other users. Let > the non-free die peacefully. Can you define "damage", please? Also, what evidence is there that non-free will "die", given that it's been growing by two distinct metrics?[1] > If package prohibit user to patch, it may be a real problem. This is > more of technical issues which makes maintainers not be able to fix bugs. ...and this restriction is true of several packages in non-free. Should they stay or should they go? If they should go, where is your proposed amendment to John's GR to make this a reality? > If it only prohibit distributor to offer binary or patched source, it is > non-free but may deserve Debian space as long as someone takes care to > offer clean installer. ( a la pine-tracker) Such a thing could go into contrib, and would not be affected by John's GR at all. > Many Free for non-commercials from old days should happily live in > non-free. (Quite likely, you will not be sued for commercial use.) I feel it is irresponsible to stake our fortunes on the likelihood of getting sued, if we're violating the license on a piece of software, or causing the operators of our mirror network to do so. Note that this issue is completely irrelevant to non-freeness, since it is possible to violate the license on a piece of DFSG-free software. > Also, as for FPGA source code or DSP/sub-CPU firmware binary, if it > exists, I would say they should be allowed as a DATA for free software > as long as it is legal to distribute them in most countries. What do we do about the countries where it isn't? [1] Message-ID: <[🔎] 20021114103645.GA943@kleinmann.com> Message-ID: <[🔎] 20021115040651.GB32282@azure.humbug.org.au> -- G. Branden Robinson | Good judgement comes from Debian GNU/Linux | experience; experience comes from branden@debian.org | bad judgement. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Fred Brooks
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