Re: "keep non-free" proposal
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:14:13PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> So, would you be opposed to have non-free stay on the debian
> infrastructure, and have some DNS magic mapping non-free.org to it, and
> this being the exclusive way of accessing this ? This would, i believe
> be a very costless way of achieving what you want, without excessive
> cost to our infrastructure.
Personally, I think this would be a good interim solution. Just look at
how the GNU project handles this with savannah.gnu.org and
savannah.nongnu.org. Of course, things are a bit different there, as
nongnu.org is still about Free Software, but their aim is to distinguish
between the official GNU project and the rest, just like we want to
distinguish the official Debian project from non-free.
OTOH, I put up this alternative (DNS and other magic) for discussion
some months ago, and some people (aj, I believe) said it would be too
difficult to implement cleanly, or at least not worth the effort. I'd be
happy to know about the opposite, though, if anybody has a good insight
into this.
Michael
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