** On Jun 12, Colin Walters scribbled: > >>>>> "Marek" == Marek Habersack <grendel@vip.net.pl> writes: > > Marek> No, Debian is obligated to provide *functional* software, > Marek> that's it. The software should be free, that's the ideal > Marek> and a goal of this distribution, but the project allows for > Marek> non-free software which has no *functionally equivalent* > Marek> free software. > > I am curious, where do you get this idea? I have not read anything > like this in the Debian literature. It's not from literature, of course. I should've said that this is the way I feel. Sorry :)) > The only thing I have read that comes close to saying this is point > four of the Social Contract, which is the very thing we are debating! > So it seems rather circular to refer to it as authoritative. So it seems, but the proposed change would hurt, IMHO, the Debian users. marek
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