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Re: Proposal: Keep non-free



On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:34:02AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Because most probably, nobody will build ftp.non-free.org. I would be
> happy to be proven the contrary though, and once such an alternative
> structure is up, and works in an acceptable way, then i would see no
> opposition to move non-free to it. 

hear, hear.

> But upto now, i have seen only empty words about it. Is the free
> software/open source way of doing not : show the code, and if it is
> good, let's use it. The same should go in this case.

Usually, people consider designing stuff first a good thing. The code
*is* available already (katie, debbugs, mailman, gforge, whatever you
want), it's mainly an issue about choosing what code and which policy to
use and who will maintain it.


Michael

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