Re: Screw non-free.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:40:09AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:26:41PM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote:
>
> > The Social Contract starts "Debian will remain 100% Free Software".
>
> This sections also says
>
> We will support our users who develop and run non-free
> software on Debian, but we will never make the system depend on an
> item of non-free software.
>
> _You_ have personally agreed that _you_ will support the Debian users
> who run non-free software on Debian by becoming a Debian developer.
Supporting our users who want to run non-free software doesn't mean that
we have to provide the non-free software for them. It just means that
we provide the capability for them to run the non-free software. Nobody
is seeking to change that.
There are many pieces of non-free software that we do not distribute
(ie, Oracle) which people nevertheless run because we support running
non-free software on our operating system, even if we do not distribute
or support the non-free software itself.
-- John
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