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Re: historical question about fceu in contrib



Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Evan Prodromou wrote:
>>Like, we wouldn't let a new word-processor into main without at 
>>least one Free document in the word processor's format,
> 
> Except that in this case, new documents could be created with the word
> processor, so it would work without the document.
> 
> In contrast, a man page viewer would not be free unless there was at least
> one free man page, because without a man page it "wouldn't work".

s/would not be free/would depend on non-free man pages/ .  The man page
viewer would go to contrib, not non-free, as long as the license was
DFSG-free.

- Josh Triplett

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