Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software
Chris Waters wrote:
>This is very much analogous to software that uses Motif vs. software
>that uses Lesstif. If Lesstif didn't exist, all software that
>requires Motif would be in non-free or contrib. But since Lesstif
>does exist, software that *can* use it goes in main, even if someone
>decides to build a copy for themselves that uses true Motif.
Lesstiff needs to be installed and used on the same machine as the program
in order to make that program work.
I think that's an important distinction.
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