Re: FSF not considering Debian as Free (Re: Debian and non-free)

[John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net>]

Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com> writes:

>>
>> I could help to set-up the infrastructure and providing
>> the non-free.org domain, but I don't think I have enough
>> infrastructure to handle the machines.
>>   
> I'm afraid you'd be wasting your time. I don't think the problem is the domain
> name hosting non-free. Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>> Thus, the debian.org site and the software in it should not refer to the
>> existence of non-free.org in such a way as to suggest getting non-free
>> software from there.
>>
>> I tried for years to convince Debian to do this, but I did not succeed.
>>   
> Translated to the current way things are done, this means that according to
> Richard, the Debian website or Debian refer to the existence of the non-free
> component in a way that suggests getting non-free software from there.
>
> I'm very curious what part of the website or Debian would be doing this for
> years, but I guess someone could ask Richard.

I haven't been following this thread super-close, so sorry if I missed
someone already throwing this out there.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

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