Re: Questions to all DPL candidates
Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org> wrote:
> I would like to know your opinion about the discrimination of the
> contrib and non-free parts of the Debian archive(*).
Debian's a free software project. It's unsurprising that we discriminate
against non-free software.
> Do you think that hidding important pieces of software does serve our
> users? (with or without the bug license teaching messages)
No, I don't think it serves our users. However, I don't think it's a
great disservice to our users, and I think it does serve free software.
> (*) some people claim that contrib and non-free are not part of Debian
> but they use their own definition (Debian==main archive) which I do not
> talk about. What I mean is the whole Debian distribution as seen by the
> majority of the users.
Strictly, it's the definition in the social contract. But yes, I know
what you mean - most users do view Debian as being main, non-free and
contrib.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.vote@srcf.ucam.org
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