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Re: Proposal - non-free software removal



Steve Juranich writes:
> I think that there are a lot more things that Debian developers
> should/could be working on before we start going on some witch hunt
> because somebody had the audacity to use a license other than GPL.

DFSG-compliant != GPL

Read the DFSG, a few dozen package licenses, and a couple of hundred
messages in the debian-legal archive.

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't even the BSD license qualify as
> "non-free" as far as Debian is concerned?

Of course not.

> So rather than Debian Developers concentrate on working ONLY on free
> projects,...

No one is proposing that.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI



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