> Please don't answer with tautological references to the social contract -- > why do you think we _wrote_ the social contract in the way it was? Because, at the time that "we" wrote it, non-free (in particular: PGP, ssh, Netscape, IIRC) was a much more important part of Debian than it is now. Those three sets of packages went from receiving extreme amounts of attention to being relegated to the junkpile. Why do you think that is?