Re: Microcode license [#3]
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:02:30PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Contrib is an official part of Debian,
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 04:33:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Only in the same sense that non-free is (ie, it's not part of the Debian
> Distribution, but it's still distributed by the Debian project).
>
> See item 1 of the social contract ``..., but we will never make the system
> depend on an item of non-free software.'' or item 5 ``We have created
> "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our FTP archive for this software. The
> software in these directories is not part of the Debian system, ...''
I stand corrected.
However, I'll mention that contrib is safe to put on the official debian
cdrom images (or dvd images, if we decide to go that way) while non-free
is not (except by considering the issues on a case-by-case basis).
--
Raul
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