Re: Visualboy Advance question.
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 02:30:45PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>:
>
> > The prerequisites for inclusion in main should merely be a reasonable belief
> > that the program is useful without recourse to anything non-free,
>
> I disagree. I think an MP3 player should be allowed into main without
> us trying to pretend that it's only there for playing DFSG-free MP3s.
I'm not pretending that the programs we distribute will only ever be used
for manipulating DFSG-free data. Whether it is or it isn't is entirely not
our concern, and that is one of our bases of freedom. However, as I have
previously mentioned, the Social Contract states that we will never make the
system require the use of anything non-free. I believe that makes any
program which only works with non-free data useless in a Debian-main
context.
- Matt
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