On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 09:12:32AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I lost track of who said what... Some here. I will probably only post once - I am not really intersted in this thread, but some issues have caught my eye. > Without giving legal advice, the package was put into non-free > for a reason, right? State the reason. > > I wouldn't put it in README.Debian. I'd put it in a mandatory > new file for non-free packages called README.Why_non-free > (contrib packages could have README.Why_contrib). I would prefer it if it went in as another field in Packages. That way, when browsing Packages for new packages that I might want to install, I can quickly see why a non-free package is non-free, and consider if it is still worth installing - of course, I would double check the official copyright file after installing it... > I could then easily find all non-free packages on my system by > doing > > $ locate README.Why_non-free I think dpkg (or some other package) should provide some mechanism to automatically list all non-free and/or contrib software installed on a system. Especially for non-free software I may have installed ages ago, and never used since... -- Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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