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Re: #12501: zip and unzip are non-free



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[I'm moving this to debian-policy]

On 1 Oct 1997, Guy Maor wrote:

> Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> 
> > [About zip and unzip moved to non-free]
> >
> > They are still in bo (main).
> > I'm going to reopen this bug.
> 
> There were a _lot_ of package movements besides this one in hamm.
> Must I duplicate them all in bo?

I those movements are like the zip/unzip one, I think so. Otherwise we can
not claim that Debian 1.3.1 r"whatever" is fully DFSG-compliant.

> Perhaps it's reasonable to keep the old definitions of non-free/contrib
> for bo (the READMEs there still refer to the old definitions), and to
> use the new definitions only for hamm?

This would be, of course, the easiest solution. But: would we doing the
right thing? Debian 1.3.1 is still being sold on CDs.

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