Re: Screw non-free.
Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:35:32AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > More and more interesting non-free software isn't suitable even for
> > non-free. Examples include:
> > o Acrobat Reader
> > o Sun Java SDK
>
> There's likely no fundamental problems stopping us from making non-free
> acceptable to those sorts of upstreams.
At least the Sun license is of the "contaminates other software"
kind. So we just a need a separate mirror infrastructure.
The other option, a Debian-specific license, has horrible political
implications. Just imagine headlines such as "Debian Project Licenses
Javan Technology From Sun", with quotes such as "After the deal, Debian
users worlwide can easily leverage Sun Microsystems's proprietary Java
technology, including the patented, award-winning HotSpot VM".
Sun's PR people would certainly love such a deal.
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