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Re: historical question about fceu in contrib



Josh Triplett wrote:

> 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

Thanks for the correction; slip of the brain.  That is, of course, what I
meant!

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