This one time, at band camp, Nathanael Nerode said: > As it is non-free stuff is squirrelled all over the Debian system. It > may be seen as a sort of "retreating", but I'd be so much happier if I > knew that all non-free stuff was located strictly in the > usr/share/doc/*/copyright and /usr/share/common-licences/* files, and > wasn't infecting the rest of the system. This is a lot of noise for a no-op, AFAICT. Do you really think that there is a magical difference depending on where you ship a file? Or is this some sort of wedge tactic, intended to make a larger change down the road more acceptable by making a smaller one now? [your personal feud with the emacs maintainer snipped] > So, Debian is being unthruthful to its users. No, I think the problem is that you have a very strange idea of what we are promising our users, based on some legalistic, over literal reading of the SC. It is clear that everything in Debian cannot be either %100 free or %100 software. We ship license texts, images, and all sorts of other things. If you are unable to read the SC to mean something sensible, that is frankly your problem. Incidentally, accusing people of lying because they have a more sensible interpretation than you is a strange way to attempt to influence people. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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