On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:00:54AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Brian White wrote: > >Dropping non-free would not help Debian. Most users and few companies > >are really concerned with the copyright on the packages they use as > >long as they get the job done. If you remove those things from Debian, > >then those users will soon go to a distribution that gives them what > >they want. > > > > He speaks the truth. > Removing non-free would probably cause some serious migration of > users. While noble, don't let the idealistic goals supercede > reasonable actions. Well, let them. Let them use a distribution where they always have to read the license to know if they are can use the software for commercial use. -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228
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