[...] As Craig said, the act of puttinga package into non-free has, in and of itself, sometimes led to licencechanges.
Can you give a reference for that, or are you making up Craig's views? He seems to get quite upset about that. As far as I can tell, he only ack'd that they were fixed "in part" due to being moved to non-free. I doubt that the mere presence in non-free does much "in and of itself" and the dialogue with the upstream and others is more important.
b.) Potentially, merge contrib into main: the packages within contrib are, by their nature, DFSG free but may need non-DFSG software to build, for example.
Only things which can work without non-free should do this, IMO. I think that's the current situation, based on what people have written to me this week.
c.) Document that fact in the relevant package descriptions. Don't "recommend" non-DFSG in apt/deselect - which removes one of rms's problems -
Are you sure? I think that he considers our "support" for it more of a problem than the control fields.
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