On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:11:03 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, David Paleino wrote: > > "Thus, although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we *SUPPORT* > > *THEIR* *USE* and provide infrastructure for non-free packages (such as our > > bug tracking system and mailing lists)." > > We're providing support for the use of non-free works which we > distribute in non-free in the part of our mailing lists, bug tracking > system, and archive. That is to say, infrastructure, packaging, and > the corresponding human investment that goes along with them. Probably what I cited above might have a better wording. In fact, it seems like Debian is "supporting the use of non-free software". We could use something like: "Thus, although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we support their users and provide infrastructure for non-free packages [..]." (I'm not a native speaker, that might be better worded) Would that be clearer? > This doesn't mean that we support the use of non-free when there are free > alternatives available. We aren't supporting the use of non-free > packages over equivalent free packages. [I'd like to think that we'd > consider it a bug to distribute a non-free package which has a > total-functionality replacement free packages (or perhaps even > majority-functionality replacement).] This is what I wanted to hear (er.. read) :) Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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