Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org

[Will Lowe <harpo@UDel.Edu>]

> Trouble is that the social contract says that we do support the use of
> non-free software, putting an evil icon seems to be to be not supporting
> the use of non-free software. The same argument is why it is listed in the

Ok.  Seems to me that this is the crux of the problem.  We say "We don't
like non-free software" and "We support the use of non-free software" ...
either we _STOP_ supporting non-free software, or we abandon the "Free
Software Only" mantra, or we accept the fact that doing neither will make
some people call us hypocrites.

I, of course, don't have any better suggestions.  I think that rearranging
the websites will just make people rearrange their bookmarks and rearrange
there sources.list files, in the same sense that people added
nonus.debian.org to sources.list ... and having apt ask each time "Are you
sure you want to download a non-free package" sounds a lot like "Internet
Explorer is not currently registered are your default browswer.  Shall I
register it?"

                     					Will


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