Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software
On 2016-01-04 23:14:11 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> 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.
And could something similar be done for free packages that can
download non-free stuff?
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