Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software
Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> writes:
> So IRC and AOL are free clients, non-free servers with no free
> alternatives,
There are free IRC servers, e.g. the ircd package in main.
> can we do the same with file formats? catdoc, mswordview and word2x
> all read word documents but there is new free software for creating
> word documents, should these be in non-free?
Who said anything about non-free? If tik was uploaded for contrib, I
would accept it instantly (as it passed all the other sanity checks I
do).
> [ ... ]
I realise that if this became policy, it would affect a lot of
software; so be it.
--
James
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