Re: non-free removal GR and our position to it ...
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:24:13PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Quoting Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>:
>
>
> > > > And what about the BTS, and other developer infrastructures ?
> > >
> > > Can be installed on third party machines as well.
> >
> > Yep, but by whom ? On whose third party machines, and with which
>
> By non-free software users.
>
> > infrastructure ?
>
> Infrastructure contributed by non-free software users.
>
> > > > And in particular, does that mean that we will drop ocaml-doc,
> > > > ocaml-books-en and ocaml-books-fr ?
> > >
> > > Not really a problem. Again, it is a matter of moving every non-free
> > > stuff out of debian.org resources. It doesn't mean we can't setup
> > > something satisfactory elsewhere.
> >
> > Do you volunteer for it then ?
>
> Why would I?
Yeah, you see that is the whole problem. This whole plan to remove
non-free is highly dependent of the non-free package maintainer finding
the time for putting up this non-free parallel infrastructure. Time we
could be spending on more usefull things.
Also, it is a bit hypocrit to find it ok to have non-free back then when
you needed netscape and acroread, but today that you don't need them
anymore, you want to remove non-free without regard for the other people
whose non-free need are not yet eliminated by equivalent free software.
And i cast a doubt on the quality of any such third party
infrastructure.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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