Re: Screw non-free.

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> 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.
[...]

I doubt that, Acrobat Reader's license is completely fucked up, it
disallows packaging. "you may not otherwise alter or modify the installer
program or create a new installer for any of such software".
            cu andreas
-- 
NMUs aren't an insult, they're not an attack, and they're
not something to avoid or be ashamed of.
                    Anthony Towns in 2004-02 on debian-devel