Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?
> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Erv Walter wrote:
>
> > [...]
>
> Let me clairfy. non-free contains packages that have some sort of
> restriction either on use or on distribution or on modification. Not
> all of the packages in non-free can be put on the Official CD although
> some of them can. debian-cd leaves out non-free completely from the
> Official CD because it (aparently) was easier than manualloy deciding
> which packages to include and which packages not to include.
Wouldn't it be nice to split up non-free in, say, a non-free and a
non-dist directory? Then you could put in non-free all packages that
have restrictions but could be distributed with debian releases, and in
non-dist you would put packages that cannot be distributed with debian
releases. Then the package maintainers can decide where a package
belongs, and CD-pressers don't need to check out each package in
non-free themselves.
Eric Meijer
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