On Sun, 02 May, 1999, James Troup wrote: > 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. Sorry, I meant ICQ not IRC. > > > 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). Sorry agin, my mistake, I meant conrib, not non-free. Maybe I should have used non-main, or maybe not. I must have been half asleep, when I wrote that email. > I realise that if this became policy, it would affect a lot of > software; so be it. -- I consume, therefore I am
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