On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:12, Barak Pearlmutter wrote: > Currently we to my knowledge have one (1) package containing > "dingleberries", which I will define as materials that we feel > must be removed for license reasons from the upstream tarball in > order to make the debian .orig.tarball. This is the linux > kernel, which contains binary firmware sans source which must be > removed. As the kernel packagers will I'm sure confirm, that is > a pain in the tush. XFree86 has numerous non-free parts to it, which Branden and the rest of the XSF painstakingly remove. I reviewed the CSound packages for Hans Fugal earlier this year, and one of my comments was that the two non-free files in it had to be gone from the orig.tar.gz (he had already removed them from the binary); as CSound is now in the archive, I imagine he's done this. pydance, which I maintain, contains non-free files, which I remove from the upstream tarball. I'm sure there are many others; I only know of the first because it's a common example, and the other two because I was immediately involved with them. One of the reasons I like Debian is because the maintainers care about stuff like this. I'm assured that free means *totally* free, all of it, even when upstream ships non-free software (including "dingleberries"). I didn't agree to the SC only when convenient for me as a packager - I agreed that Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software, regardless of the work it takes me. -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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