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Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software



On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 07:45:37AM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Your second item has been brought up before with different
> focus/rationale/purpose.  At least I remember there being an interest
> in splitting "non-free" into "non-free/firmware" vs. various other
> non-free sub components.

Another one that is worth mentioning here --- which I discussed in the
context of non-free.org with Dafydd Harries and others --- is
introducing a debtags facet to capture the reason why a package is in
non-free. At least two hierarchies come to mind: 1) which point of DFSG
is not respected, and 2) which one of the 4 freedoms are not granted.

I've had on my TODO list proposing the relevant debtags facets since at
least 2 years, but never found the time to actually do that. This is a
very actionable item: it is enough to follow the procedure for proposing
a new debtags. (Procedure that I cannot find right now, but IIRC it
includes coming up with a list of tag names + a list of at least N
packages, with N relatively low, that are already in the archive and
that would carry each tag.)

Cheers.
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