Re: A sensible plan for non-free
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:16:37 -0600, Ean Schuessler <ean@spi-inc.org> said:
> The change I suggest is that the non-free and contrib sections be
> protected by certificate authentication. Certificates will be
> distributed to 3rd parties who sign up as an official 3rd party
> distributor of the non-free and contrib sections. All developers
> will also be issued a certificate for development purposes. Beyond
> these groups no end user will be able to download non-free or
> contrib software from a Debian controlled server.
Firstly, should we not see what the project members want to do
about the non free section?
Secondly, the whole point of making my non-free packages, for
me, is to make them accessible to end users, not to have thee end
users held up for ransome by commercial third parties that
indemnifies SPI.
manoj
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