Re: Screw non-free.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:53:48AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > Non-free and contrib crept in as a matter of convenience. At the time the vast
> > > majority of people could not download something as big as Debian so their
> > > importance was discounted. Those times are passing and we need to come to
> > > terms with where we came from so that we can firmly perceive where we are
> > > headed.
> > >...
> >
> > non-free will become more important in the future:
> >
> > With Debians position regarding documentation licenses (especially the
> > GFDL), the documentation (e.g. man pages and info files) for many
> > important free programs in Debian will have to go into non-free after
> > the release of sarge.
>
> If non-free becomes more important, we failed. That would be another
> reason for me to get rid of it as soon as possible in order not to
> contaminate more people's hard disks. I really appreciate the
> decision of the debian-installer people to stop mentioning this
> repository in the new installer.
>
> Anyway, if more programs go into non-free, their use should be
> discouraged if people want to use a Free system. They chose on their
> own, though.
>....
I was specifically talking about documentation.
It's really nice to be able to read the man and info pages of gcc
although they might be slightly non-DFSG-free.
> Regards,
>
> Joey
cu
Adrian
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