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Re: The "Free" vs. "Non-Free" issue



On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:21:50AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > (It is not part of debian, we were told in the past. Opponents of the 
> > suggested GR seem to forget that and talk of things like removing from 
> > debian, or phasing out from debian.) What's your suggested plan for 
> 
> I don't really care if it is part of debian or not, what we are speaking
> about here is the debian infrastructure. If we were to move non-free to
> a virtual non-free host or something, pointing to the real debian
> infrastructure, this would be fine with me, but seriously, i don't see
> what would be gained by it.

I see only one vital point for having those packages on the "real Debian
infrastructure", instead of a mere copy of it: You could continue to
reassign bugs from non-free to main.

Anything else I missed?


Michael



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