OT: unicorn, was: one of the many reasons why removing non-free is a dumb idea
I think most of the previous email is replied to elsewhere (= "in
another subthread" for the hard of thinking), or I don't have answers
(such as plan for contrib), or I agree.
On 2004-01-07 09:10:26 +0000 Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
wrote:
Well, sure. The only problem with that [...]
Yep, there's problems. We don't know how difficult it will be to
overcome them, but it may be possible to overcome them, one way or
another.
That said, i may write to licensing@gnu.org, what should i ask them ?
Really, whatever interests you. Some questions may be answered in
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FSWithNFLibs I think, but
they may have interesting opinions about things where -legal
participants were not sure.
Please could you look into writing a replacement library for this
soft-ADSL library ?
Sorry, I work flat out and don't need it myself right now.
I think you are mostly wrong about "without even bothering to look
at the
issues in detail". Many of the participants here (with a range of
Well, then prove me wrong, and look at all the software in detail.
You've changed your accusation. I think that you're probably right
now: no one person has examined all of non-free. That is not the same
as not having looked at the issues. Possibly they don't know them all,
but do you? If so, can you publish a full bullet list summary of them
for us?
I
have cited three examples i care about, and nobofy from the "let's
remove non-free camp" has responded on them.
I thought I answered, but all together now: absence of evidence is not
evidence of absence.
Also, another danger i see in it, is that if we don't have a a
non-free
anymore, many packages which are borderlines, and which go into
non-free
today, will be tempted to go into main (well, not good english, but i
guess you understand).
We make mistakes sometimes already and have to correct them. This
sometimes results in the package being removed entirely and every
maintainer I've worked with has been honest, thoughtful and polite
about it. I doubt that will change.
the huge amount of installer packages that will proliferate if this is
going to happen.
Would an installer depend on non-free, thereby being unable to go in
main?
Finally, you are as capable as any of us to check who is a DD. Why
guess?
Because i have more usefull things to do with my time ?
I think you probably have more useful things to do than lob idle
random accusations around, too.
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