Re: The "Free" vs. "Non-Free" issue
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:19:51PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, what were your reasons for supporting a non-free
> > package?
>
> To be completely honest, I do not recall. I think I found it useful for
> a little while, but lost interest in it almost immediately afterwards.
>
> There were more than one package, actually. One was whirlgif, which at
> the time was the only tool to make animated GIFs. I don't recall its
> history very well, but I think it started out in main but then moved to
> non-free when the whole Unisys patent thing came up. The other was
> bulkmail, but again, I don't remember much about it. Both have far
> better alternatives these days.
Oh.
You used to need stuff from non-free in the past, and then it was ok to
have non-free, but now that you have no use for it, it should be
removed, despite maybe other people still needing it ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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