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Re: weekly policy summary



On debian-policy, "Davide G. M. Salvetti" <salve@debian.org> wrote:
> Patent restriction does not imply freedom restriction: they are two
> very different matters.  In other words, gimp-non-free is misnamed,
> and (software license permitting) it should go directly to
> non-US/main, which is main (i.e., perfectly free software).  The
> package gimp could thus suggest gimp-tiff-gif without any problem.
> 
> On the other hand, if gimp-non-free was really non-free software, I
> think we should not suggest it in any way from main, even if that was
> the only available way to use TIFF or GIF.  This isn't the case,
> however.

So The Gimp was a bad example how about bsdgames? If there was not reference
to rogue being in bsdgames-non-free then the maintainer might get lots of
e-mails asking where rogue was. Yes, I know I am pushing it a bit. Similarly
with tetex and tetex-non-free.

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