Re: [SOLVED] Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

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Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?
From: John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 10:14:37 -0500
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Reply-to: john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
In-reply-to: <[🔎] BANLkTimFyFWMDtUKNe=TM8uDKh3e7z9voA@mail.gmail.com> (sdc's message of "Sun, 15 May 2011 17:28:29 +0300")
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sdc writes:
> My beginner question is, why doesn't Debian remove the [non-free]
> software hosted on it's servers?

Because some of our users need it.  While we make that stuff available,
we do not consider it part of Debian.

> Don't they want to follow the FSF word?

No.  Note that the FSF publishes documentation that Debian considers
non-free.  Debian is not a subsiduary of the FSF.  See
<http://www.debian.org/social_contract>
-- 
John Hasler

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