On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:33:04AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:01:47PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: > > I support Branden's proposal but I don't support the removal of > > non-free. > > Branden's proposal has the first clause read: > > Debian Will Remain 100% Free > > We promise to preserve your right to freely use, modify and > distribute Debian operating system distributions. [...] Every > work contained in our distributions will satisfy those guidelines. > [...] > > and removes any counterbalancing mention of distributing non-free software > as well. > > How do you square Debian continuing to distribute non-free software with > our promise to remain "100% free", and the promise that "every work in > our distributions will satisfy [the DFSG]"? But wait: doesn't Debian currently distribute non-free software? And don't we currently promise to remain "100% free software"? How do you square that? -- gram
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